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  • Geographic Categorization Methods Used in BioSense

    Content Type: Abstract

    BioSense is a CDC initiative to promote situational awareness through summarizing, analyzing, and presenting health related event information. Among the data sources collected and analyzed through the BioSense application are the Department of… read more
    … and Department of Veterans Affairs ambulatory clinic care data. Clinical diagnoses and procedures are quantified, … but critical component to determine the likely site of exposure for disease surveillance. This paper … and Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) ambulatory clinic care data. Clinical diagnoses and procedures are quantified, …
  • Identifying Fractures in BioSense Radiology Reports

    Content Type: Abstract

    The purposes of this study are to validate a keyword-based text parsing algorithm for identifying fractures and compare radiology results with chief complaint and ICD-9 final diagnoses.
    … and pharmeutical receipt. METHODS We studied 17,647 visits with an extremity film and final ICD-9 coded … we applied the text parsing algorithm to all 17,647 visits with a text radiography reading. Of these, 73% were … had radiographs with fractures. The five most common sites of fracture were hand (12%), wrist (11%), ankle (10%), …
  • 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
    … to 6/11/06. Because of differences in available data, visits were defined dif- ferently for the 3 data types. For VA and hospital data, repeat visits within 24 hours of discharge were grouped into a single visit. For DoD data, each visit to a facility, regardless of …
  • 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 … in the Bio- Sense program send emergency department visit in- formation, in addition to these data approximately … also send data regarding inpatient and outpatient visits. Of all emergency department visits during the study …
  • Syndromic Prediction Power: Comparing Covariates and Baselines

    Content Type: Abstract

    The eleven syndrome classifications for clinical data records monitored by BioSense include rare events such as death or lymphadenitis and also common occurrences such as respiratory infections. BioSense currently uses two statistical methods for… read more
    … models: day-of-week, holiday, total daily health facility visits, and a trend variable (date). Models using different … data for this paper consisted of daily military clinical visit count data from the Department of Defense (DoD) for … of 28, 56, and 112 days were used to make one-day-ahead visit count predictions. For each forecast, the baseline …
  • BioSense Platform: Introduction to SAS Studio Basics

    Content Type: Webinar

    Presented December 4, 2018. The Webinar, Introduction of SAS Studio Basics to the BioSense Platform, will include overviews, summaries, tips, tricks, and examples across a number of SAS topics on the BioSense Platform. Some of these topics will… read more
    … user profile macros (username, encrypted password, and site short name) and save to your home folder. 3. Set up and … snippet to connect you to your site’s shared folder – Open the …
  • Clostridium Difficile, Surveillance Using Laboratory Data from BioSense Hospitals

    Content Type: Abstract

    To determine the feasibility of using BioSense laboratory data to do surveillance on Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) and calculate overall and facility rates of disease.
    … outpatient), admission and discharge dates, and visit denominator data for rate calculations. A patient was …
  • BioSense Real-Time Data Initiative: Improving Emergency Preparedness- Monitoring Injury Sub-Syndromes

    Content Type: Abstract

    Analysis of the BioSense data facilitates the identification, tracking, and management of emergent and routine health events, including potential bioterrorism events, injury related incidents and rapidly spreading naturally occurring events (1).… read more
    … ings, sprains & strains). RESULTS A total of 8,342,336 visits were recorded in the ED Chief Complaint category into … system from January 2, 2006 to July 18, 2007. Of all visits; the greatest proportion binned to the Respiratory … the most frequent were injury NOS (6.7% of total visits), open wounds (3.4%), falls (3.1%), and MVC (2.2%). …