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Post-disaster Surveillance Following the Tsunami in Japan: BioSense 2011
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The CDC's BioSense Program receives near real-time health care utilization data from a number of sources, including Department of Defense (DoD) healthcare facilities from around the globe and non-federal hospital emergency departments (EDs) in the… read more… emergency departments (EDs) in the US, to support all-hazards surveillance and situation awareness. Following … departments (EDs) in the United States, to support all-hazards surveillance and situation awareness. Following … algorithms for automated biosurveillance. Emerg Infect Dis. 2009;15:533�9. *Achintya Dey E-mail: aad2@cdc.gov (page … -
Identifying Clusters of Falls During the 2007-08 Winter Season in the BioSense System
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The purposes of this study are to identify and characterize increases in emergency department (ED) visits for falls during the 2007-08 winter season.… We identified several large increases in ED visits due to falls associated with severe weather. The increases …