Description
Since July 2004 the BioSense program at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has received data from DoD military and VA outpatient clinics (not in real time). In January 2006 real-time hospital data (e.g. chief complaints and diagnoses) was added. Various diagnoses from all sources are binned into one or more of 11 syndrome categories.
Objective
This paper's objective is to compare syndromic categorization of newly acquired real-time civilian hospital data with existing BioSense data sources.