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Syndromic Surveillance in practice: New York City
Presented by: Farzad Mostashari, MS, MDNew York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
Contributors: Rick Heffernan, Don Weiss, Syndromic Surveillance team
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Definitions
“Public health surveillance is the ongoing systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of health data essential to the planning, implementation, and evaluation of public health practice, closely integrated with the timely dissemination of these data to those who need to know.”
CDC
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Traditional Disease Surveillance
– List of notifiable diseases or conditions– Relies on doctor/ laboratory reporting– By paper, telephone, fax, electronic
– Significant diagnostic and reporting delays– Does not include most common causes of
widespread illness outbreaks (viral agents)
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What is Syndromic Surveillance?
• “Real-time” public health surveillance using data that is routinely collected for other purposes
Non-specific health indicatorsUses existing data“Real time” transmission, analysis, and alertsNew analytical techniques needed
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Goals
• Early detection of large outbreaks• Characterization of size, spread, and
tempo of outbreaks once detected
• Monitoring of disease trends
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Day 0 - exposure occursDay 1 - feels fineDay 2 - headaches, fever- buys OTC medsDay 3 - develops cough- calls providerDay 4 - sees private doctor: “flu”Day 5 - worsens- calls ambulance
seen in Emergency Dept.Day 6 - admitted- “pneumonia”Day 7 - critically ill- ICU, lab tests +Day 8 - expires- “respiratory failure”
Pharmaceutical Sales
Nurse’s HotlineOutpatient Visit Data
Ambulance Dispatch (EMS)ED Logs
Absenteeism
Data sources for early detection of acute illness
Diagnosed
Reported
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Data Transfer
EMS
FTP Server
Inside Firewall
Data available
FTP Server
Inside Firewall
Data available
Pharmacy
FTP Server
Outside Firewall
Data available
FTP Server
Outside Firewall
Data available
Emergency Department Absenteeism
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Key Hardware and Software• Secure ftp server• Desktop personal computers for analysis
• **SAS statistical software (COTS)• **SatScan cluster detection tool (freeware)
• Other applications– PHIN Messaging (freeware)– Microsoft SQL Server database
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EMS-911 surveillanceDate Time Call-type Zip
09/06/99 13:09:19 SICK 1001309/06/99 11:09:57 UNC 1122009/05/99 09:09:12 SEIZR 1045809/05/99 08:09:22 RESPIR 1002509/04/99 11:09:52 ABDPN 11434
Influenza-like illnessRESPIR, DIFFBR, SICK, SICPED
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41 (60%) of 67 NYC EDs75% of ED visits
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Electronic ED logs
Admission List For 01/28/2002 AGE SEX TIME CHIEF COMPLAINT ZIP15 M 01:04 ASSAULTED YESTERDAY, RT EYE REDDENED.116911 M 01:17 FEVER 104 AS PER MOTHER. 1145542 F 03:20 112204 F 01:45 FEVER, COUGH, LABORED BREATHING. 1150762 F 22:51 ASTHMA ATTACK. 1001348 M 13:04 SOB AT HOME. 1002726 M 06:02 C/O DIFFICULTY BREATHING. 66 M 17:01 PT. MOTTLED AND CYANOTIC. 10031
• 4% of records have missing or uninformative chief complaint (Eg. ‘See Triage’, ‘Walkout’, ‘N/A’ etc.)
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Coding chief complaints into syndromes
Respiratory illnesskey words: cough, shortness of breath, URI, pneumoniaexcludes: cold symptoms
Non-specific febrile illnesskey words: fever, chills, body aches, flu/influenza, viral syndrome
Gastrointestinal illnesskey words: diarrhea, vomitingexcludes: abdominal pain alone, nausea alone
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Daily Reports: Resp/ Fever (November 19, 2003)
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Diarrhea/Vomiting (Feb 18, 2004)
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Pharmacy locations
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EMS calls
Employee Absenteeism- “flu”ED respiratory visits
Pharmacy Antiviral RxPrescription Data
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Summary of citywide temporal signals
• Some clear seasonal patterns evident • Sharp spikes associated with known
events • Difficult to investigate• Used to reinforce public health messages
(influenza, viral GI, heat wave, blackout)
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Abdom All ages Zip code 1-day 12 obs / 2.6 exp RR= 4.6 p=0.004
Details: Zip Obs / Exp RR UHF Neighborhood
10455 3 / 0.7 4.6 Hunts Point - Mott Haven
10459 5 / 0.5 10.9 Hunts Point - Mott Haven
10473 4 / 1.2 3.3 Pelham - Throgs Neck
10474 0 / 0.3 0.0 Hunts Point - Mott Haven
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Legal Mandate
Local health officers shall exercise due diligence in ascertaining the existence of outbreaks of illness or the unusual prevalence of diseases, and shall immediately investigate the causes of same
New York State Sanitary Code, 10 NYCRR Chapter 1, Section 2.16(a)
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Guidelines for evaluating alarms
More concerningSustained increaseMultiple hospitals involvedMultiple syndromes High number of casesOther systems alarmingStrong geographic clusteringCoincident clinician call Coincident with high profile
public event
Less concerningOne-day increaseSingle hospitals involvedLow number of casesNo other evidenceDiffuse increase across city
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Is It Worth the Effort?• Costs
– Implementation costs are modest– Operational costs=time of public health staff,
investigations
• Benefits– Possibility of huge benefit if early detection– Characterization– Strengthening traditional surveillance– Dual Use
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Early warning of viral GI activity
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Increase in NRT sales concurrent with taxes/regulations?
New Year2002
New Year2003
StateTax
CityTax Smoke-Free
Air Act
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BlackoutRespiratory Gastrointestinal
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Allergy Meds & Asthma Visits
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Other Uses• Case finding for measles outbreak• Heat-related illness• Cipro sales after anthrax• Fireworks• Dog bites/rat bites• West Nile virus spraying• Suicide attempts• Overdoses• Carbon monoxide poisoning
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Privacy and Confidentiality• Health departments have strong tradition of
maintaining security of confidentiality information– Public health provisions in HIPAA
• Data collected under auspices of bioterrorism surveillance de-linked from any identifiers for non-BT surveillance
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So What?• Strengthened surveillance systems in
place• Potential to better monitor all public
health situations• Even if there are no more bioterror
attacks, preparation can strengthen our public health infrastructure and ability to respond
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Which Data Source is Best?
• Readily Available• Representative• Timely• Flexible• Specific• Investigable• Good Signal-Noise
In NYC
• ED visit logs
• Ambulance Dispatch• Local Pharmacy Chain
• National Pharm Data• Absenteeism
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National Program?
• Potential Issues:– Legal mandate – Regional outbreaks– Data sources available– Support investigation and response– Support multi-use/ flexibility– Single point of failure?
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Build the Highway
• Standards that enable data flow• Facilitate National Local data flow • Support evaluation• Develop and deploy rapid diagnostics
• Strengthen local capacity– Reliable, sustained funding
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Future Steps• Data Sources
– Outpatient visit & EMR data– Lab orders– School sick visits
• Data Transport– Transition to PHIN-MS
• Data Analysis– Text normalization and coding– Multiple data sources– Integration with environmental surveillance– Outbreak “signatures”
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Future Steps, cont.• Investigation
– Rapid specimen collection & diagnostic testing
• Evaluation & Validation– Simulated (synthetic) outbreaks– Systematic documentation of prospective
surveillance– Sharing of experiences
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2004 National Syndromic Surveillance Conference
Boston, Nov 3-4
www.syndromic.org
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AcknowledgementsNYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
Analysts ‘Cluster Docs’ Field Surveillance MISRick Heffernan Don Weiss Linda Steiner Ed CarubisDebjani Das Sharon Balter Amanda Adams Hadi MakkiSudha Reddy Jennifer Leng Lacretia Jones Chris LiangJingsong Lu Polly Thomas Sheryl Young Jian LiuKatie Bornschlegel Joel Ackelsberg Julien YuenJessica Hartman Mike Phillips Shelly CurryRich Rosselli Elsie LeeKristi Metzger Adam Karpati
Farzad MostashariMarci Layton
NYC Office of Emergency ManagementNYC Fire Department NYC Hospitals: Emergency Departments, MIS and Infection Control staffMartin Kulldorff (Harvard Medical School)Alfred P Sloan FoundationCenters for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)