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Integration of Hospital Admissions, Febrile Respiratory Illness Screening and Triage Acuity Score into an Emergency Department Syndromic Surveillance System
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This paper outlines the integration of hospital admission, Febrile Respiratory Illness (FRI) screening and Canadian Triage and Acuity Score (CTAS) data streams within an Emergency Department Syndromic Surveillance system. These data elements allow… read more -
Maximum Entropy Models in Chief Complaint Classification
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This paper describes a novel approach to the statistical classification of free-text chief complaints for the purpose of syndromic surveillance. -
SDOH Integration into Syndromic Surveillance and Emergency Response Systems
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Presented December 6, 2016 Dr. Kieran Moore and Dr. Paul Belanger presented the following slides during the 2016 ISDS Annual Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. This presentation provides an overview of integrating Social Determinates of… read more -
Lessons Learned from an Extreme Heat Event using ACES for Situational Awareness, Ontario, Canada
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The Acute Care Enhanced Surveillance (ACES) system provides syndromic surveillance for Ontario's acute care hospitals. ACES receives over 99% of acute care records for emergency department (ED) visits; mean daily volume is 17,500 visits. ACES uses a… read more -
Facilitating the Sharing of Patient Information Between Health Care Providers
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In the current state of the health care system there is uneven access to primary care, and too many people struggling to navigate the system are receiving care in the hospital for issues that would be better dealt with in the community, and then are… read more -
Surveillance Systems that Include Deprivation Indices & Social Determinants of Health
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In 2012, Canada and other World Health Organization Member States endorsed the Rio Political Declaration on Social Determinants of Health, a global commitment to address health inequities by acting on the social, economic, environmental, and other… read more -
Real-Time Surveillance of Environmental and Demographic Data in Ontario with PHIMS
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Geographic Information System (GIS) applications are increasingly being used for public health purposes. GIS technology provides visual tools – through the creation of computerized maps, graphs, and tables of geographic data – that can assist with… read more -
Tracking Trends in Marginalization and Deprivation Across Ontario with SDOH Mapper
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Geographic Information System (GIS) technology provides visual tools, through the creation of computerized maps, graphs, and tables of geographic data, which can assist with problem solving and inform decision-making. One of the GIS tools being… read more