Article: Daily electronic disease surveillance system--Bergen County, Paramus, New Jersey.(Abstracts)

Abstract

Emergency Department Surveillance System: The Bergen County Daily Electronic Disease Surveillance System (DEDSS) is composed of three discrete components used to analyze public health data. The core of the system is the Emergency Department Surveillance System (EDSS), which monitors hospital emergency department (ED) data for syndromes based on chief complaint data. Data from six local hospitals are sent daily in batches by file transfer protocol (FTP) to the department's Internet webserver, loaded into a Microsoft[TM] structured query language (SQL) server, and analyzed with SAS[R] (SAS Institute, Cary, North Carolina) software by using algorithms ...

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