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Surveillance for Radiation-Related Exposures Reported to the National Poison Data System
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For radiological incidents, collecting surveillance data can identify radiation-related public health significant incidents quickly and enable public health officials to describe the characteristics of the affected population and the magnitude of… read more… to radiation and radioactive materials reported from all 57 United States (US) PCs to NPDS, a web-based, national PC reporting database and surveillance system. Objective … to radiation and radioactive materials reported from all 57 United States (US) PCs to NPDS, a web-based, national … -
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… analysis, visualization, and reporting of call data from all 61 regional poison centers (PCs) in cooperation with … to facilitate early recognition and monitoring of illness due to intentional or unintentional chemical or toxin … analysis, visualization, and reporting of call data from all 61 regional poison centers (PCs) in cooperation with … -
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… Methods A new, unique event code was created for staff of all 57 regional PCs to use for coding calls related to this … Conclusions Collaboration between CDC, AAPCC and PC staff were crucial to surveillance efforts during the … ehtj11115 ehtj11120 ehtj11024 ehtj11060 ehtj11110 26-50 ehtj11034 ehtj11198 ehtj11174 ehtj11048 ehtj11154 … -
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… and hospital data from 7/1/06 to 4/31/07. We could not de-duplicate DoD patient visits due to lack of a longitudinal patient identifier. We … -
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.… sub-syndrome distributions were compared. Results Across all hospital systems, the 5 most common ED chief … c Fa lls D iz zi ne ss H em or rh ag e R as h C ou gh E de m a O tit is m ed ia P re gn an cy , ch ild bi rth , M al … 8/31/2006 0 5000 10000 15000 20000 25000 30000 M en ta l di so rd er s S pr ai ns a nd st ra in s A bd om in al pa in … -
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… 1 data anomaly on 3/15/07 C: 1 day 5. GI syndrome cluster due to synthetic data for a drill at one hospital ED, 1 data … -
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… 10%. For the 3 most common ED CC sub- syndromes (i.e,. abd pain, diarrhea, nausea), ED diagnoses often … [difficulty swallowing], and 787.91-diarrhea. For all three data sources, the abdominal pain sub-syndrome was …