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Advanced Querying Features for Disease Surveillance Systems
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Automated disease surveillance systems that analyze data by syndrome categories have been used to look for outbreaks of disease for about 10 years. Most of these systems notify users of increases in the prevalence of reports in syndrome categories… read more -
Case Studies in the Use of the National Poison Data System (NPDS)
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The National Poison Data System (NPDS) is maintained and operated by the American Association of Poison Control Centers (AAPCC) for the analysis, visualization, and reporting of call data from all 61 regional poison centers (PCs) in cooperation with… read more -
Criteria for Prioritizing Statisitical Anomalies Identified in BioSense
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Objective To describe a standard set of criteria for identifying potentially important anomalies and to compare the criteria with several recent public health events. read more -
The Use of BioSense Data for Surveillance of Gastrointestinal Illness
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The BioSense system currently receives real-time data from more than 370 hospitals, as well as national daily batched data from over 1100 Department of Defense and Veterans Affairs medical facilities. BioSense maps chief… read more -
Use of Final Diagnosis Data for Surveillance of Respiratory Syncytial Virus
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The BioSense system receives patient level clinical data from > 370 hospitals and 1100 ambulatory care Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs medical facilities. Visits are assigned as appropriate to 78 sub-syndromes… read more -
Use of the National Poison Data System after the 2011 Japan Radiological Incident for Surveillance of Incident-related Exposures in the United States
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NPDS is a national database of detailed information collected from each call, uploaded in near real-time, from the 57 participating regional poison centers (PCs) located across the US. NPDS is owned and operated by the American Association of Poison… read more -
Results from the BioSense Jurisdiction-Specific Wbinars
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BioSense is a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) national near real-time public health surveillance system. CDC’s BioIntelligence Center (BIC) analysts monitor, analyze, and interpret BioSense data daily and provide support to BioSense… read more -
ICD-9 CM Based Sub-Syndrome Distributions in BioSense Hospital Data
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Objective To examine sub-syndrome distributions among BioSense emergency department (ED) chief complaint and final diagnosis based data and to observe patterns by hospital system, age, and gender.