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Components of Inter-Hospital Variability in Chief Complaints Assigned to a Gastrointestinal Syndrome
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Patientâs chief complaint (CC) is often used for syndromic surveillance for bioterrorism and outbreak detection, but little is known about the inter-hospital variability in the sensitivity of this method. Objective: Our objective was to… read more -
Consultative Meeting on Chief Complaint Classifiers and Standardized Syndromic Definitions
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We will convene a consultative meeting on chief complaint classifiers and standardized syndromic definitions in Pittsburgh, PA, from September 24-25, -
Contact Tracing in Asymptomatic Diseases Under Elimination
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This study analyzes the critical tracing fraction (fc) to eliminate diseases like rubella when both asymptomatic and symptomatic cases are considered. -
Correlation between Alerts Generated from Electronic Medical Record (EMR) Data Sources and Traditional Data Sources
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the use of electronic medical record (EMR) data sources to improve the detection performance of a syndromic surveillance system. This analysis involves examining the temporal correlation between alerts… read more -
Correlation Between HL-7 Microbiology and Pharmacy Out Patient Data: A Case Study Using Influenza
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The Navy Environmental Health Center is developing Health Level-7 data for use in syndromic surveillance activities. The objective of this study is to identify the usefulness of that data to identify and track influenza patients through pharmacy… read more -
Correlation between Influenza and Respiratory Syncytial Virus Isolates and Emergency Department Visits, Los Angeles County, 2005-2006
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This study describes the ability by which total volume of ED visits correlate with influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) activity in the community. -
Correlation between Real-Time BioSense Influenza Indicators and Data from the U.S. Influenza Sentinal Physicians Surveillance Network
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Objective The objective of this study was to determine which chief complaints and ICD-9-CM coded diagnoses from real-time BioSense hospital data correlate well with data from conventional influenza surveillance systems. -
Could Outpatient Visits Enhance Our Ability of Early Detecting Influenza-Like Illness Outbreaks?
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This paper describes HHC outpatient data and evaluates the performance for early influenza-like illness (ILI) outbreak detection. We compare its detection ability to that of the emergency department (ED) data and of the two data sources… read more