The Louisiana Office of Public Health (OPH) Infectious Disease Epidemiology Section conducts emergency department (ED) syndromic surveillance using the Louisiana Early Event Detection System (LEEDS). LEEDS automatically processes electronic chief complaint, admit reason and diagnosis data to identify ED visits indicative of specific syndromes. In response to local transmission of chikungunya virus in the Caribbean and the first travel-associated case in Louisiana in May of 2014, OPH conducted an arboviral syndromic surveillance study to validate arboviral syndromes and evaluate the utility and practicality of detecting and monitoring arboviral disease using ED chief complaint, admit reason and diagnosis text data.
Objective
To validate arboviral syndromes and evaluate the utility and practicality of detecting and monitoring arboviral disease using ED chief complaint, admit reason and diagnosis text data.