1. Surveillance of Overdose-related Emergency Department Visits in Rhode Island
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Colleen Martin, Matthew Lozier, and Daniel Chaput
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Disease surveillance ,medicine.medical_specialty ,drug overdose surveillance ,business.industry ,Outbreak ,Emergency department ,ISDS 2013 Conference Abstracts ,Drug overdose ,medicine.disease ,Disease cluster ,Emergency medicine ,medicine ,General Earth and Planetary Sciences ,syndromic surveillance ,business ,overdose outbreak ,General Environmental Science - Abstract
We determined if the Rhode Island Real-time Outbreak and Disease Surveillance (RODS) system identified an increase in emergency department (ED) overdose visits during a known cluster of illicit-drug overdose deaths in RI and characterized ED overdose visits. When stratified by ED there was a significant increase in overdose chief complaints from one ED during March - May 2013 compared to the previous year. This coincides with the cluster of drug overdose deaths in March 2013. Despite most chief complaints for overdose not specifying cause, syndromic surveillance systems provide an existing platform that could be used to better assess ED overdose visits.
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- 2014
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