Happy Mother's Day to all blog Moms!
Quiet Shabbat here.
I spent Friday doing some very cool epidemiology work for the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.) An area of Chicago close to my hospital is a swine flu epicenter, and they are trying to understand the community penetration is of the virus. One way to do this is to figure out how many patients come see their doctors with 'influenza-like illnesses'. I was able to do this for all of the hundreds of outpatient primary care doctors in our
area (more than 35,000 outpatient visits in the last 5 weeks) using an electronic chart review method. Here I've broken it out by the ZIP code that the patient lives in; this allows us to determine which geographical areas the virus has penetrated. Interestingly, the CDC was aware of a problem in ZIP 60626. This method demonstrated that there was a 'spike' in patients with flu in other ZIP codes as well.
Anyway, too much information, I know. I'm just excited about what we can do with our technologies...
Ari
whats with that big box of chocolates. i want to share.
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