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  • Use of Diagnosis Code in Mental Health Syndrome Definition

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    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 … This increase was higher for mental disorders visits (55 percent for depression, anxiety or stress … disorders) than for substance use disorders (37 percent) visits. This increasing number of ED visits by patients with …
  • 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.
    … and characterize increases in emergency department (ED) visits for falls during the 2007-08 winter season. Document … and characterize increases in emergency department (ED) visits for falls during the 2007-08 winter season. … United States [1] and accounted for 21% of injury-related visits to U.S. EDs in 2005 [2]. BioSense is a national …
  • Customizing ESSENCE Queries for Select Mental Health Sub-indicators

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    Syndromic surveillance systems, although initially developed in response to bioterrorist threats, are increasingly being used at the local, state, and national level to support early identification of infectious disease and other emerging threats to… read more
    … queries to meet local needs, especially monitoring ED visits in near-real time during public health emergencies, … BioSense Platform, representing about 55 percent of ED visits in the United States (2). The platform's surveillance … new queries. Objective : Emergency department (ED) visits related to mental health (MH) disorders have …
  • Overcoming Operational Differences to Attain a National Picture for Novel Threats

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    The May arrival of two cases of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) in the US offered CDC’s BioSense SyS Program an opportunity to give CDC’s Emergency Operations Center (EOC) and state-and-local jurisdictions an enhanced national picture of… read more
    … The May arrival of two cases of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome … by teresa.hamby@d… on Fri, 11/24/2017 - 09:06 … The May arrival of two cases of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome …
  • Use of Syndromic Data for Enhanced Surveillance: MERS Like-Syndrome

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    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) BioSense system receives near real-time health care utilization data from number of sources, including DoD and VA outpatient facilities, and nonfederal hospital EDs in the US to support all-hazards… read more
    … illness first reported in Saudi Arabia in 2012. In May 2014, CDC confirmed two unlinked imported cases of MERS … illness first reported in Saudi Arabia in 2012. In May 2014, CDC confirmed two unlinked imported cases of MERS …
  • Evaluation of Clinical and Administrative Data to Augment Public Health Surveillance

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    Medical claims and EHR data sources offer the potential to ascertain disease and health risk behavior prevalence and incidence, evaluate the use of clinical services, and monitor changes related to public health interventions. Passage of the HITECH… read more
    … in healthcare utilization and preventive services that may be a result of the 2009 Health Reform legislation. … in healthcare utilization and preventive services that may be a result of the 2009 Health Reform legislation. …
  • 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
    … for the following keywords indicating a KI-related visit: (1) potas*, pottas*; (2) iodine, iodide; (3) KI; (4) … following the visit date. To identify clusters of patient visits of interest, we used a modified version of the early … ehtj11115 ehtj11120 ehtj11024 ehtj11060 ehtj11110 26-50 ehtj11034 ehtj11198 ehtj11174 ehtj11048 ehtj11154 …
  • Identifying Fractures in BioSense Radiology Reports

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    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 … good agreement with discharge ICD-9 codes; disagreements may have occurred because of inaccuracies in the text …