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  • Use of Diagnosis Code in Mental Health Syndrome Definition

    Content Type: Abstract

    Between 2006 and 2013, the rate of emergency department (ED) visits related to mental and substance use disorders increased substantially. This increase was higher for mental disorders visits (55 percent for depression, anxiety or stress reactions… read more
    … 2006 and 2013, the rate of emergency department (ED) visits related to mental and substance use disorders … mental disorders indicates a growing burden on the health-care delivery system. New methods of surveillance are needed … systems primarily rely on patient chief complaints (CC) to monitor and detect health events. Some studies …
  • 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
    … per volunteer feedback.  Finally, we will describe what sites can expect during the next few months, including our … o  User Acceptance TesDng 3. TRANSITION o Transi;on 9 sites per month, beginning summer 2016 o Develop Facility … Group (Summer 2015) § Extensive communication with site partners (via participants and informally) ESSENCE …
  • New Master Facility Table: Improving the Quality of Facility Data

    Content Type: Webinar

    The Division of Health Informatics and Surveillance (DHIS) team has been working to clean, standardize, and improve the quality of data on the Master Facility Table (MFT). The MFT provides a unique identifier for each facility along with facility… read more
    … Now the DHIS team is ready to fine-tune each site's MFT so that duplicates have been removed and … and with correct characteristics recorded in the site-specific MFT. Once a site-specific baseline MFT has been established, sites will be responsible for keeping it up-to-date.  This …
  • 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 … Visits with Nontyphoidal Salmonella Infections Reported to … Health Informatics, Atlanta, GA Objective To describe visits reported from BioSense hospitals with non-typhoidal …
  • 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
    … 550 hospitals. The National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NHAMCS) is an annual national probability … that collects data on U.S. emergency department (ED) visits. Objective To assess the representativeness of … 550 hospitals. The National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NHAMCS) is an annual national probability …
  • 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
    … if age < 2 years when calculated from birth date and visit date) o  C_Patient_Age_Years (Normalized to an integer … Type mapping to Pa5ent Class o  Proposal to map Urgent Care facilities to patient class code of O (rather than …
  • 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
    … for Syndromic Surveillance: Emergency Department, Urgent Care, Inpa8ent and Ambulatory Care Sehngs, Release 2.0 … 1.  A Pa;ent ID must exist and is > 2 characters 2.  A Visit Date must exist as a valid date and is >= 8 characters … from algorithm o  May store data from earlier visits Processed Table will store: •  C_Visit_Date_Time …
  • NSSP’s Master Facility Table (MFT) Module Overview

    Content Type: Webinar

    Presented July 25, 2018. The NSSP team is excited to share our progress towards adding the Master Facility Table (MFT) as a module to the BioSense Platform’s Access and Management Center, or AMC. The addition of the MFT module gives you, as a… read more
    … or AMC. The addition of the MFT module gives you, as a site administrator, insight into the status of data feeds … displays information about facilities  MFT Tab: allows site administrators to add, review, and modify facility … may support”  Facility support different facility types/care settings  Select a primary facility based on facility …