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  • Visits with Nontyphoidal Salmonella Infections Reported to the BioSense System, 2006-2007

    Content Type: Abstract

    Biosurveillance systems typically receive free- text chief complaint and coded diagnosis data, however this data has limited specificity for notifiable disease surveillance. The Biosense System receives chief complaint and/or diagnosis data from… read more
    … a Category B bioterrorist agent. Objective To describe visits reported from BioSense hospitals with non-typhoidal … or sub-syndrome). Laboratory results were reported for 70 patients with findings of nontyphoidal Salmonella …
  • Representativeness of Emergency Department Data Reported to the BioSense System

    Content Type: Abstract

    In 2007, the CDC BioSense System received data from 450 non-federal hospitals. Hospitals provide data to Biosense based on their capability and willingness to supply electronic data. As of July 2008, Biosense is receiving data from 550 hospitals.… read more
    … that collects data on U.S. emergency department (ED) visits. Objective To assess the representativeness of … BioSense were: infections (ICD-9 codes 001-139) 3.0% vs 2.6%; respiratory (codes 460-519) 11.0% vs 9.3%; digestive … 19.3% vs 1.3%; Midwest, 24.9% vs 64.7%; South 38.0% vs 26.8%; and West 17.7% vs 7.3%. After applying BioSense …
  • BioSense Platform Data Flow - Part 2 - Introduction to ESSENCE Configuration for BioSense Platform

    Content Type: Webinar

    The National Syndromic Surveillance Program (NSSP) is conducting a three-part webinar series to describe how data will flow to the BioSense Platform. This comprehensive series explores how data are ingested into the BioSense Platform and ESSENCE… read more
    … push data into the ESSENCE application and how those data may appear on the front-end web application component of … binning o  Support Web-based queries §  For each visit, ESSENCE populates each column with info present in … store info across all messages that constitute a single visit) o  Per community feedback, additional history fields …
  • Rapid Identification of Pneumonias in BioSense Data Using Radiology Text Reports

    Content Type: Abstract

    BioSense currently receives demographic and chief complaint data from more than 360 hospitals and text radiology reports from 36 hospitals. Detection of pneumonia is an important as several Category A bioterrorism diseases as well as avian influenza… read more
    … text reports are often received within 1-2 days and may provide a faster way to identify pneumonia than coded … reports of chest X-rays performed for 42,510 hospital visits (which corresponds to 34,883 patients) and the … Armen Asatryan, MD, MPH E-mail: armen.asatryan@saic.com Advances in Disease Surveillance 2007;4:82 … BioSense …
  • BioSense Participation by Non-Federal Hospitals

    Content Type: Abstract

    BioSense is a national program designed to improve the nation’s capabilities for conducting disease detection, monitoring, and real-time situational awareness. Currently, BioSense receives near real-time data from non-federal hospitals, as well as… read more
    … the Bio- Sense application. About 11% of total U.S. ED visits are sent to BioSense, 10% via state or local health … the study period, 95% of these records contained a chief com- plaint, 14% a working diagnosis, and 37% a final … total number of outpatient visits, 87% had a reason for visit, 33% a working diagnosis, and 53% a final diagnosis. …
  • Analyses of National Syndromic Surveillance Data: Real-Time Hospital, Veterans Affairs (VA) & Department of Defense (DoD) Data

    Content Type: Abstract

    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… read more
    … within 24 hours of discharge were grouped into a single visit. For DoD data, each visit to a facility, regardless of … duration since the last dis- charge is considered as one visit. We calculated both the percent of total visits that … facility-month was: Hospital, 0.3 million and 1,708; DoD, 2.6 mil- lion and 230; and VA, 3.9 million and 190. The …
  • BioSense Platform Data Flow - Part 1- Data Ingestion into the BioSense Platform

    Content Type: Webinar

    The National Syndromic Surveillance Program (NSSP) is conducting a three-part webinar series to describe how data will flow to the BioSense Platform. This comprehensive series explores how data are ingested into the BioSense Platform and ESSENCE… read more
    … - Multiple Birth Indicator •  PID.25 - Birth Order •  PID.26 - Citizenship •  PID.27 - Veterans Military Status •  … the MFT Processing Status = Pass Processing Status = Fail Y Y N Y N Include Error Code to indicate why message was … Telephone: 1-800-CDC-INFO (232-4636)/TTY: 1-888-232-6348 Visit: www.cdc.gov | Contact CDC at: 1-800-CDC-INFO or …
  • BioSense Platform Data Flow - Part 3 - Legacy Data Conversion and Transition Plan

    Content Type: Webinar

    The National Syndromic Surveillance Program (NSSP) is conducting a three-part webinar series to describe how data will flow to the BioSense Platform. This comprehensive series explores how data are ingested into the BioSense Platform and ESSENCE… read more
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