Electronic Health Record-Based Surveillance for Community Transmitted COVID-19 in the Emergency Department
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Pulia, Michael S.; Hekman, Daniel J.; Glazer, Joshua M.; Barclay-Buchanan, Ciara; Kuehnel, Nicholas; Ross, Joshua; Sharp, Brian; Batt, Robert; Patterson, Brian W.
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Introduction: SARS-CoV-2, a novel coronavirus, manifests as a respiratory syndrome (COVID-19) and is the cause of an ongoing pandemic. The response to COVID-19 in the United States has been hampered by an overall lack of diagnostic testing capacity. To address uncertainty about ongoing levels of SARS-CoV-2 community transmission early in the pandemic, we aimed to develop a surveillance tool using readily available emergency department (ED) operations data extracted from the electronic health record (EHR). This involved optimizing the identification of acute respiratory infection (ARI)-related encounters and then comparing metrics for these encounters before and after the confirmation of SARS-CoV-2 community transmission.
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Date of Publication
2020
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Western Journal of Emergency Medicine: Integrating Emergency Care with Population Health
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21/4
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Pulia, Michael S.; Hekman, Daniel J.; Glazer, Joshua M.; Barclay-Buchanan, Ciara; Kuehnel, Nicholas; Ross, Joshua; Sharp, Brian; Batt, Robert; Patterson, Brian W.