Reports, Presentations, Posters and Papers related to NC DETECT

Carolina Center for Health Informatics Annual Reports on NC DETECT Emergency Department Visit Data

For 2009: The UNC Department of Emergency Medicine Carolina Center for Health Informatics Report, Overview and Analysis of NC DETECT Emergency Department Data: 2009. Chapel Hill: NC. Carolina Center for Health Informatics, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2011.
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For 2008: The UNC Department of Emergency Medicine Carolina Center for Health Informatics Report, NC DETECT Emergency Department Data: 2008. Chapel Hill: NC. Carolina Center for Health Informatics, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, (July) 2010.

For 2007: Hakenewerth AM, Waller AE, Tintinalli J, Ising A. NC DETECT Annual Report. North Carolina Emergency Department Data January 1,2007-December 31, 2007. UNC Department of Emergency Medicine Carolina Center for Health Informatics, 2009.
*** Please also see errata published in 2010 ***

NC DHHS Reports Using NC DETECT Data

NC Division of Public Health. Facts and Figures. Flu in NC: The Numbers. North Carolina Influenza Weekly Update. http://www.flu.nc.gov/flu/data/

NC Division of Public Health. Injury & Violence Prevention Branch. Data and Surveillance. http://www.injuryfreenc.ncdhhs.gov/DataSurveillance/DataSurveillanceIndex.htm

NC Division of Public Health. Occupational & Environmental Epidemiology. The 2011 North Carolina Heat Report. http://publichealth.nc.gov/chronicdiseaseandinjury/doc/HeatReport-13-2011.pdf

NC Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilitiesa and Substance Abuse Services. Statistics and Publications. Reports Regarding LMEs and Providers: Emergency Department Admissions Quarterly Reports. http://www.ncdhhs.gov/mhddsas/statspublications/Reports/lmes-providers/EDAdmissions/index.htm

Presentations, Posters and Papers related to NC DETECT

2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004 and earlier

NC DETECT in the News

2003-Present

2011

Papers & Abstracts

Rhea S, Ising A, Deyneka L, Vaughn-Batten H, Fleischauer A, Waller A.  Using near real-time morbidity data to identify heat-related illness prevention strategies in North Carolina.  Journal of Community Health, published online September, 2011.

Lich KH, Travers D, Psek W, Weinberger M, Yeatts K, Liao W, Lippman SJ, Njord L, Waller AE.  Emergency Department Visits Attributable to Asthma in North Carolina, 2008.  North Carolina Medical Journal (in press).

Rappold AG, Stone SL, Cascio WE, Neas LM, Kilaru VJ, Carraway MS, et al. 2011. Peat Bog Wildfire Smoke Exposure in Rural North Carolina Is Associated with Cardio-Pulmonary Emergency Department Visits Assessed Through Syndromic Surveillance. Environ Health Perspect :-. doi:10.1289/ehp.1003206
Received: 12 November 2010; Accepted: 23 June 2011; Online: 27 June 2011
http://ehp03.niehs.nih.gov/article/fetchArticle.action?articleURI=info%3Adoi%2F10.1289%2Fehp.1003206

Mayer DK, Travers D, Wyss A, Leak A, Waller A. ORIGINAL REPORTS - Health Services and Outcomes: Why Do Patients With Cancer Visit Emergency Departments? Results of a 2008 Population Study in North Carolina. JCO Jul 1, 2011:2683-2688; published online on May 23, 2011;
http://jco.ascopubs.org/content/29/19/2683.abstract

Zhao, Y., Zeng, D., Herring, A. H., Ising, A., Waller, A., Richardson, D. and Kosorok, M. R. (2011), Detecting Disease Outbreaks Using Local Spatiotemporal Methods. Biometrics. doi: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2011.01585.x
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1541-0420.2011.01585.x/abstract

Presentations

Mahalingam D, Medlin R, Travers D, Haas S.  Temporal Information Extractor:  Identifying Symptom Onset Date from Emergency Department Notes.  Poster accepted for presentation to American Medical Informatics Association Conference, October 2011.

The Development and Use of a Statewide, All-Hazards Surveillance System: NC DETECT. Joint Health Informatics Seminar, October 5, 2011: https://www.dchi.duke.edu/education/informatics-seminars/2011-seminar-archives/joint-health-informatics-seminar-october-5-2011

Heather Vaughan-Batten, Amy Ising. Overview of NC DETECT. The Essential Contributions of Public Health Nurses in Communicable Disease Investigations Conference. July 26-27, 2011. Raleigh, NC. http://epi.publichealth.nc.gov/gcdc/manual/conference.html

Samoff E, Ising A, Waller A, Vavalle E, Davis M, Park M, Haas S, DiBiases L, MacDonald P.  Improving use of biosurveillance data at local health departments in NC.  February 2011.  (Poster at the NACCHO 2011 Public Health Preparedness Summit, Atlanta, GA).

Heaney C, Richardson D, Jagai J.   Rainfall and emergency department visits for acute gastrointestinal illness in North Carolina, 2006-2008.  Poster presented to the Conference of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology, September 13-16, 2011, Barcelona, Spain.

Fuhrman C, Konrad C, Kovach M, Perkins DJ, Richardson D. Heat-Related Morbidity in North Carolina: Who's at Risk? 2nd Symposium on Environment and Health 91st Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society Seattle, WA 25 January 2011. http://www.sercc.com/FuhrmannAMS2011HeatHealth.pdf

2010

Papers & Abstracts

Kaydos-Daniels SC, Rojas Smith L, Ising AI, Barnett C, Farris T, Waller AE, Wetterhall S. A Case Study of the Role of Biosurveillance in Early Detection, Situational Awareness, and Response to Public Health Threats: The North Carolina Disease Event Tracking and Epidemiologic Collection Tool (NC DETECT). In: Kass-Hout T, Zhang X, eds. Biosurveillance: A Health Protection Priority. CRC Press. September 2010.

Rein DB. A Snapshot of Situational Awareness: Using the NC DETECT System to Monitor the 2007 Heat Wave. In: Kass-Hout T, Zhang X, eds. Biosurveillance: A Health Protection Priority. CRC Press. September 2010.

Rhea S, Glickman S, Waller S, Ising A, Maillard J, Lund E, Glickman L. Evaluation of routinely collected veterinary and human health data for surveillance of human tick-borne diseases in North Carolina. Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases (in press).

Waller A, Hakenewerth A, Tintinalli J, Ising A. North Carolina Emergency Department Data, January 1, 2007-December 31, 2007. North Carolina Medical Journal, January/February 2010, 71(1):15-25.

Waller AE, Ising AI, Deyneka L. North Carolina Biosurveillance System. In: Voeller JG, editor. Wiley Handbook of Science and Technology for Homeland Security. New York: Wiley; 3.5 April 2010.

Waller, AE, Scholer, MJ, Ising, AI and Travers, DA. Using Emergency Department Data for Biosurveillance: The North Carolina Experience. Book chapter in: Infectious Disease Informatics and Biosurveillance: Research, Systems, and Case Studies, Castillo-Chavez-C, et. al., editors, Springer Publishing Company (in press).

Presentations

Falls D, Li M. Storage and Dissemination of Public Health Data in a Secure Environment. September 2010 NCHICA Conference.

Ising, A, Ford, M, Beuhler, M, Deyneka, L, Waller, A. Overview and Public Health Surveillance Utility of Poison Center Data Webinar for the International Society for Disease Surveillance, March 2010.

Leacock BW, Platts-Mills TF, Cabana J, McLean S. Increases in Emergency Medical Services Use Across the Life Span: Analysis of North Carolina’s Comprehensive Emergency Department Database. SAEM Conference, June 2010.

Liao W, Ising A, Moore Z, Maillard J, Deyneka L, Waller A, Davies M. Syndromic surveillance data beyond chief complaint: The NC DETECT experience and its implications for meaningful use. CSTE Annual Conference, June 2010.

Moore Z. Human Influenza Surveillance. 2009 National One Medicine Symposium.

Ndubuizu A, Glickman S, Glickman L, Scholer M, Waller A, Shofer F, Cairns C. The Impact of Aging on the Clinical Presentation of ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction. SAEM Conference, June 2010

Ndubuizu A, Scholer M, Glickman S, Glickman L, Waller A, Travers D, Cairns C, Shofer F. Accuracy and Feasibility of a Novel Approach to Emergency Medicine Text Processing of ED Chief Complaints. SAEM Conference, June 2010.

Moro-Sutherland D, Johnson C, Falls D, Scholer M, Waller A, Shofer F, Cairns C. Variability in Hospital Admission Rates for Neonates (0-28 days) with Fever in North Carolina. Poster at SAEM Conference, June 2010

Samoff E, Davis M, Park M, Fleischauer A, Haas S, MacDonald P, Waller A. Increasing Surveillance Effectiveness to Support the Public Health System. April 2010. Poster at 2010 Keeneland Conference.

Samoff E, Park M, Fleischauer A, Ising A, Davis M, Haas S, MacDonald P, Waller A. Use of Syndromic Surveillance for H1N1 Influenza and Other Outbreak Management. February 2010. Poster at NACCHO PHREP conference.

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2009

Papers & Abstracts

DeKoning P, Hakenewerth A, Tintinalli J, Platts-Mills T. Epidemiology of Burns in North Carolina. Burns 2009 Sep;35(6):776-82. Epub 2009 May 30.

Ising A, Deyneka L, Rhea S, Waller A. NC DETECT Disaster Modules Facilitate Efficient Population Monitoring (abstract) 2009 ISDS Annual Conference.

Ising A, Deyneka L, NC DETECT Disaster Modules Facilitate Efficient Population Monitoring (abstract) 2009 PHIN Annual Conference.

Ising A, Beuhler M, Deyneka L, Ford M, Waller A. Poison Center Data Use for Enhanced Public Health Surveillance (abstract). 2009 ISDS Annual Conference.

Ising A, Travers DA, Scholer M, Crouch J, Waller AE. Evaluation of Triage Note Negation Processing for Syndromic Surveillance (abstract). 2009 ISDS Annual Conference.

Ising A, Deyneka L, Li M, Waller A. Bridging the Gap: Incorporating Data Entry for Lab-based and Inpatient Surveillance in NC DETECT (Poster). 2009 ISDS Annual Conference.

Radke S, Barnett C, Waller A. Evaluating the Validity of Emergency Department Data for Biosurveillance. (abstract) 2009 ISDS Annual Conference.

Samoff E, Fleischauer A, Moore Z, Park M, Deyneka L, Davis M, Haas SW, MacDonald P. Waller A. Use of Syndromic Surveillance for Outbreak Detection and Management, North Carolina 2008-9 (asbtract). 2009 ISDS Annual Conference.

Scholer M, Travers D, Waller A, McCalla A, Wetterhall S. Optimizing Syndromic Classification in Biosurveillance Systems (abstract). 2009 ISDS Annual Conference.

Travers D, Waller A, Katznelson J, Agans R. Reliability and Validity of the Emergency Severity Index for Pediatric Triage. Academic Emergency Medicine 2009; 16:843-849; published online August 31, 2009.

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2008

Papers & Abstracts

Brannan S, Evens N, Barnett C, Deyneka L, Ising A, Wheaton W, Rineer J. Web-Based Spatio-Temporal Display of NC DETECT Surveillance Data. Advances in Disease Surveillance. 2008; 5:6.

Dara J, Dowling JN, Travers D, Cooper GF, Chapman WW. Evaluation of preprocessing techniques for chief complaint classification. Journal of Biomedical Informatics 2008; 41(4):613-623.

Glickman L, Rhea S, Glickman S, Waller A, Ising A, Engel J. Canine Tick Diagnoses are a Sentinel for Tick-borne Diseases in People. Advances in Disease Surveillance. 5:176.

Haas SW, Travers D, Tintinalli JE, Pollock D, Waller A, Barthell E, Burt C, Chapman, W, Coonan K, Kamens, D, McClay, J. (2008). Towards vocabulary control for chief complaint. Academic Emergency Medicine, 15(5): 476-82.

Hakenewerth, AM, Waller, AE, Ising, AI, Tintinalli, JE. NC DETECT and NHAMCS: Comparison of Emergency Department Data. Academic Emergency Medicine 2008; published online December 31, 2008.

Hohenhaus S, Travers D, Mecham N. Pediatric Triage: A Review of the Emergency Education Literature. J Emerg Nurs 2008; 34(4): 308-313.

Irvine, A. Natural Language Processing and Temporal Information Extraction in Emergency Department Triage Notes. Masters Paper submitted to the School of Information and Library Science, 2008. http://ils.unc.edu/MSpapers/3378.pdf

Irvine, AK, Haas, SW, Sullivan, T. TN-TIES: A system for extracting temporal information from Emergency Department triage notes. AMIA.Annu.Symp.Proc., 2008:328-332.

Ising A, Deyneka L, Vaughn-Batten H, Li M, Falls D, Barnett C, Waller A. The North Carolina Disease Event Tracking and Epidemiologic CollectionTool (NC DETECT) (Poster). Sixth Annual One Medicine Symposium, Durham, NC, December 10, 2008.

Li M, Ising A, Deyneka L, Falls D, Waller A. Using NC DETECT Summary Reports to Share Syndromic Information (Poster). Advances in Disease Surveillance. 5:113.

Park M, Ising A, Deyneka L, Waller A. Infection Control Practitioner Use of NC DETECT (Poster). Advances in Disease Surveillance. 5:124.

Phillips T, Haas S, Tintinalli J, Travers D, Waller A. In Search of a Controlled Vocabulary for Emergency Department Chief Complaint: A Comparison of Four Published Chief Complaint Lists (Poster). Advances in Disease Surveillance. 5:52

Ratcliffe A, Barnett C, Ising A, Waller A. Evaluating the Validity of ED Visit Data for Biosurveillance (Poster). Advances in Disease Surveillance. 2008; 5:57.

Rojas-Smith L, Kaydos N, Farris T, Barnett C, Ising A. The Utility of Biosurveillance for Public Health Practice: The Findings from Two Case Studies. Advances in Disease Surveillance. 2008; 5:58.

Sullivan, T, Irvine, A, & Haas, SW. It's all relative: usage of relative temporal expressions in triage notes. Proceedings of the 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 2008; 45:1-8.

Travers D, Scholer M, Crouch J, Wetterhall S. Using UMLS Semantic Network to Identify Search Terms for Biosurveillance (Poster). Advances in Disease Surveillance. 2008; 5:69.

Presentations

Falls D. Public Health Surveillance System Offers Speed of Handling Diverse Incoming Data. Pervasive Users Conference, Austin, TX, October 12-15, 2008.

Ising A, Park M, Waller A, Deyneka L. ICP Use of NC DETECT. NCHICA Annual Conference, Greensboro, NC, September 8, 2008.

Ising A and Park M. NC DETECT for ICPs (Poster). APIC-NC Conference, Durham, NC, September 22, 2008.

Waller A, Ising A, Deyneka L. Timely Public Health Surveillance: The North Carolina Disease Event Tracking and Epidemiologic Collection Tool (NC DETECT). Webinar presentation for the NC Center for Public Health Preparedness seminar series, Chapel Hill, NC, March 20, 2008.

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2007

Papers & Abstracts

Barnett C, Ising A, Travers D, Waller AE. Emergency Department Data Quality Best Practices. Advances in Disease Surveillance 2006 2:193

Barnett C, Deyneka L, Waller AE. Post-Katrina Situational Awareness in North Carolina. Advances in Disease Surveillance 2006 2:142

Deyneka L, Costa P, Kipp A. Using Poison Center Syndromic Surveillance for Environmental Health Signals Detection. Advances in Disease Surveillance 2006 2:151.

Falls, DM, McLamb J, Ising A, Waller AE. Using Business Intelligence Tools to Automate Data Capture and Reporting. Advances in Disease Surveillance 2006 2:6.

Forbach C, Scholer, MJ, Falls DM, Ising A, Waller AE. Improving System Ability to Identify Symptom Complexes in Free-Text Data. Advances in Disease Surveillance 2006 2:7.

Ghneim GS, Wu S, Westlake M, Scholer MJ, Travers D, Waller AE, Wetterhall S. Defining and Applying a Method for Establishing Gold Standard Sets of Emergency Room Visit Data. Advances in Disease Surveillance 2006 2:9

Haas, S, Travers, D, Waller, A, Kramer-Duffield, J. (2007). What is an event? Domain constraints for temporal analysis of chief complaints and triage notes. Proceedings of the 2007 ASIST Annual Meeting.

Ising A, Travers D, Crouch J, Waller AE. Improving Negation Processing in Triage Notes. Advances in Disease Surveillance 2007 4:50
2007 ISDS Conference PowerPoint Presentation is also available.

Ising A, Li M, Deyneka L, Barnett C, Scholer M, Waller A. Situational Awareness Using Web-based Annotation and Custom Reporting. Advances in Disease Surveillance 2007 4:167
2007 ISDS Conference PowerPoint Presentation is also available.

Li M, Ising A, Havaldar R, Waller AE. Multi-Tier Role Based Access for Secure and Flexible Syndromic Surveillance. Advances in Disease Surveillance 2006 2:158

Scholer MJ, Ghneim G, Wu S, Westlake M, Travers D, Waller AE, McCalla A and Wetterhall SF. Defining and Applying a Method for Improving the Sensitivity and Specificity of an Emergency Department Early Event Detection System. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2007 Oct 11:651-5.

Travers D, Wu S, Scholer MJ, Westlake M, Waller AE and McCalla A. Evaluation of a Chief Complaint Pre-Processor for Biosurveillance. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2007 Oct 11:736-40.

Waller AE, Deyneka L , Ising A. North Carolina Emergency Department Visit Data Available for Public Health Surveillance. NC Med J, July/August 2007, Volume 68, Number 4

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2006

Papers & Abstracts

Ising A, Li M, Waller AE.
Documenting Alerts within a Web-based Early Event Detection System.
AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2006;964.

Travers DA, Barnett C, Ising A, Waller A.
Timeliness of emergency department diagnoses for syndromic surveillance.
AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2006;769-73.

Travers DA and Haas SW. Unified Medical Language System Coverage of Emergency-Medicine Chief Complaints. Academic Emergency Medicine 2006; 13(12): 1319-1323.

Presentations

Deyneka L, Ising A, Waller AE, The North Carolina Disease Event Tracking and Epidemiologic Collection Tool - NC DETECT. NCHICA Annual Conference, 9/11/2006, Greensboro, NC.

Falls, D., McLamb, J. NC DETECT BI Tools. Business Intelligence Forum June 5-6, 2006, San Francisco, CA

Ising, A, Waller, AE, Steen R, Wagner G. Incorporating Lessons Learned from NC DETECT in the Development of a NHIN Prototype Architecture Biosurveillance Use Case in North Carolina. PHIN Conference, 9/27/2006, Atlanta, GA.

Waller AE, Ising A, Deyneka L. The North Carolina Disease Event Tracking and Epidemiologic Collection Tool – NC DETECT: (Presentation of Davies Award Winners) PHIN Conference, 9/27/2006, Atlanta, GA.

Waller AE, Ising A, Deyneka L. NC DETECT Uses and Lessons Learned. PHIN Conference, 9/27/2006, Atlanta, GA.

Waller, A., Ising, A. Public Health and Biosurveillance: From Plan to Practice. HIMSS Summit, June 7-8, 2006, Washington, D.C.

Waller, A., Ising, A. North Carolina Disease Event Tracking and Epidemiologic Collection Tool. HIMSS Annual Conference, 2/15/2006, San Diego, CA

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2005

Presentations

Ising A, Travers D, MacFarquhar J, Kipp A, Waller A. Triage Note in Emergency Department-Based Syndromic Surveillance. Presentation at the 2005 National Syndromic Surveillance Conference, Seattle, Washington.

Li M, Ising A, Waller A, Falls D, Eubanks T, Kipp A. North Carolina Bioterrorism and Emerging Infection Prevention System. Presentation at the 2005 National Syndromic Surveillance Conference, Seattle, Washington.

MacFarquhar J, Sickbert-Bennett E, Waller A, Travers D, Scholer M, Davies M.Evolution of a Syndromic Surveillance Case Definition. Presentation at the 2005 National Syndromic Surveillance Conference, Seattle, Washington. September 2005.

McLamb J. Securing a Public Health Surveillance System – A case study of the North Carolina Emergency Department Surveillance System. Presentation at HealthSec 2005 Conference.

Scholer M, MacFarquhar J, Sickbert-Bennett E, Kipp A, Travers D, Waller A. Reverse Engineering of a Syndrome Definition for Influenza. Presentation at the 2005 National Syndromic Surveillance Conference, Seattle, Washington. September 2005.

Travers D, Kipp A, MacFarquhar J, Waller A. Evaluation of Emergency Medical Text Processor For Pre-Processing Chief Complaint Data for Syndromic Surveillance. Presentation at the 2005 National Syndromic Surveillance Conference, Seattle, Washington. September 2005.

North Carolina Disease Event Tracking and Epidemiologic Collection Tool: Technical Overview. Presentation given as part of the ASTHO Conference Call Series. December 2005

North Carolina Disease Event Tracking and Epidemiologic Collection Tool: Operational Overview. Presentation given as part of the ASTHO Conference Call Series. December 2005.

NC DETECT (formerly NC BEIPS) Public Health Information Network (PHIN) Conference, Atlanta, Georgia May 2005.

HIMSS Public Health Davies Award Manuscript May 2005.

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2004 and earlier

Beard C, Waller A, Travers D, Haas S. Electronic Emergency Department Data for Bioterrorism Surveillance: Regional Assessment of Data Availability and a Sentinel Hospital Concept. Presentation at International Medical Informatics Association/MEDINFO, San Francisco, CA. September 2004.

Cline, J. S. Preparing for Bioterrorism in North Carolina. North Carolina Medical Journal. September/October 2002. 63(5): 257-264.

Ising A, Waller A, Ahmad F, Li M, Falls D, Eubanks T, MacFarquhar J. North Carolina Emergency Department Database: Timely, Convenient Access to ED Data. Presentation at the 2004 National Syndromic Surveillance Conference, Boston, MA. November 2004.

Ising A, Waller A, Ahmad F, Li M, Falls D, Eubanks T, MacFarquhar J. North Carolina Emergency Department Database: Timely, Convenient Access to ED Data. Presentation at International Medical Informatics Association/MEDINFO, San Francisco, CA. September 2004.

Moore, Jill. New North Carolina Public Health Bioterrorism Law. (Instititute of Government) Health Law (79). February 2003:

Scholer M, Waller A. Development of a Syndrome Definition for Influenza-like-illness. Presentation at American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. November 2004:

Sickbert-Bennett, E., Scholer, M., Butler, J., Travers, D., MacFarquahr, J., Waller, A., et al. (2004). Evaluating a syndromic surveillance system for the detection of acute infectious gastroenteritis outbreaks- North Carolina. MMWR Supplement, 54, 201. November 2004

Travers DA, Haas SW. Evaluation of Emergency Medical Text Processor, a system for cleaning chief complaint data.
Academic Emergency Medicine. 2004; 11(11): 1170-1176.

Travers D, Haas S. Validation of Emergency Medical Text Processor: A New Tool for Extracting Terms from Clinical Text. Presentation at International Medical Informatics Association/MEDINFO, San Francisco, CA. September 2004.

Travers DA, Haas SW, Waller AE, and Tintinalli JE. Diagnosis Clusters for Emergency Medicine. Academic Emergency Medicine 2003; 10(12): 1337-1344.

Travers DA, Haas SW. Using nurses' natural language entries to build a concept-oriented terminology for patient's chief
complaints in the emergency department. Journal of Biomedical Informatics. 2003; 36:260-270.

Travers DA, Waller A, Haas S, Lober WB, Beard C. Emergency department data for bioterrorism surveillance: Electronic
availability, timeliness, sources and standards. Proceedings of the AMIA Symposium. 2003; November.

Travers DA, Waller AE, Bowling JM, Flowers D and Tintinalli JE. Five-level triage system more effective than three-level in tertiary emergency department. Journal of Emergency Nursing 2002; 28(5):395-400.

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NC DETECT In the News

June 24, 2011: Eastern North Carolina wildfires take toll on the public's health in coastal counties: http://www.wwaytv3.com/2011/06/24/eastern-north-carolina-wildfires-take-toll-the-publics-health-coastal-counties

August 28, 2007: NC DHHS Press Release: Heat Wave Emergency Department Monitoring Yields Surprising Results

April 3, 2006: North Carolina puts out a net for tracking diseases, Government Computer News. The article also includes a nice timeline of emergency department data collection in North Carolina in PDF format, http://www.gcn.com/newspics/G08newsp12.pdf

December 1, 2005: Bioterrorism, infection surveillance system receives national award for excellence

November 16, 2005: Surveillance system links hospitals (Although not referred to by name, NC DETECT is the system that "can look for flu-like illnesses, gastrointestinal symptoms, respiratory-system complaints, fevers and rashes, among other medical symptoms" and is the system "the state used ... to track victims of Hurricane Katrina who were relocated to North Carolina."

October 13, 2005: Recognizing Quality in Action, HIMSS Announces Winners of the Nicholas E. Davies Awards of Excellence

May 23, 2003: Researchers aim to centralize N.C. emergency room data to combat epidemics, bioterrorism (UNC News Release)

June 30, 2003: NC ER Database Program Honored

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