Evaluation of Emergency Department-Based Surveillance Systems at 2 Healthcare Facilities After Hurricane Maria: Puerto Rico, 2017-2018
| العنوان: | Evaluation of Emergency Department-Based Surveillance Systems at 2 Healthcare Facilities After Hurricane Maria: Puerto Rico, 2017-2018 |
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| المؤلفون: | Gabriela Paz-Bailey, Verónica M. Frasqueri-Quintana, Liliana Sánchez-González, Julio M Reyes Claudio, Xiomara Torres-Figueroa, Luzeida Vargas, Luisa I. Alvarado, Emma Little, William Santiago, Elyonel Ponton-Cruz, Laura Adams, Kyle Ryff, Kaitlyn Ciampaglio |
| المصدر: | Disaster Med Public Health Prep |
| بيانات النشر: | Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2019. |
| سنة النشر: | 2019 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | 021110 strategic, defence & security studies, business.industry, 0211 other engineering and technologies, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Human factors and ergonomics, Poison control, 02 engineering and technology, Emergency department, medicine.disease, Suicide prevention, Article, Occupational safety and health, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Health care, Injury prevention, Medicine, Electronic data, 030212 general & internal medicine, Medical emergency, business |
| الوصف: | Objectives: Hurricane Maria caused catastrophic damage in Puerto Rico, increasing the risk for morbidity and mortality in the post-impact period. We aimed to establish a syndromic surveillance system to describe the number and type of visits at 2 emergency health-care settings in the same hospital system in Ponce, Puerto Rico. Methods: We implemented a hurricane surveillance system by interviewing patients with a short questionnaire about the reason for visit at a hospital emergency department and associated urgent care clinic in the 6 mo after Hurricane Maria. We then evaluated the system by comparing findings with data from the electronic medical record (EMR) system for the same time period. Results: The hurricane surveillance system captured information from 5116 participants across the 2 sites, representing 17% of all visits captured in the EMR for the same period. Most visits were associated with acute illness/symptoms (79%), followed by injury (11%). The hurricane surveillance and EMR data were similar, proportionally, by sex, age, and visit category. Conclusions: The hurricane surveillance system provided timely and representative data about the number and type of visits at 2 sites. This system, or an adapted version using available electronic data, should be considered in future disaster settings. |
| تدمد: | 1938-744X 1935-7893 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::58066a6c83c04adcfaa02d754670e621 https://doi.org/10.1017/dmp.2019.79 |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi.dedup.....58066a6c83c04adcfaa02d754670e621 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 1938744X 19357893 |
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