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Notes From the Field: Use of Emergency Medical Service Data to Augment COVID-19 Public Health Surveillance in Montgomery County, Maryland, From March to June 2020
- Source :
- JMIR Public Health and Surveillance, Vol 6, Iss 3, p e22331 (2020), JMIR Public Health and Surveillance
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- JMIR Publications, 2020.
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Abstract
- Epidemiologic and syndromic surveillance metrics traditionally used by public health departments can be enhanced to better predict hospitalization for coronavirus disease (COVID-19). In Montgomery County, Maryland, measurements of oxygen saturation (SpO2) by pulse oximetry obtained by the emergency medical service (EMS) were added to these traditional metrics to enhance the public health picture for decision makers. During a 78-day period, the rolling 7-day average of the percentage of EMS patients with SpO2
- Subjects :
- Emergency Medical Services
medicine.medical_specialty
020205 medical informatics
Hospital bed
emergency medical service
Pneumonia, Viral
Health Informatics
02 engineering and technology
03 medical and health sciences
Viewpoint
0302 clinical medicine
Public health surveillance
0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
medicine
Emergency medical services
Humans
Public Health Surveillance
030212 general & internal medicine
Pandemics
Service (business)
Maryland
medicine.diagnostic_test
SARS-CoV-2
business.industry
Public health
public health
EMS
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
COVID-19
prediction
Emergency department
medicine.disease
testing
pulse oximetry
Pulse oximetry
surveillance
Medical emergency
Augment
Public aspects of medicine
RA1-1270
Coronavirus Infections
business
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 23692960
- Volume :
- 6
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- JMIR Public Health and Surveillance
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....9b1a5254e3d4ab74dcdbd0da9bbb3738