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Mental Illness and Co-morbid Conditions: BioSense 2008 - 2011
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Understanding the relationship between mental illness and medical comorbidity is an important aspect of public health surveillance. In 2004, an estimated one fourth of the US adults reported having a mental illness in the previous year (1). Studies… read more… Mental Illness and Co-morbid Conditions: BioSense 2008 - 2011 … -
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.… Software for the spatial and space-time scan statistics. www.satscan.org, 2008 Advances in Disease Surveillance … -
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… Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD- 9-CM) 990, 508.0, 558.1, E926 and E926.9. There was a 2- to … between the time of patient visit and time when ICD-9-CM-coded final diagnoses were available. To monitor … 1. Tokars JI, Burkom H, Xing J, English R, Bloom S, Cox K, et al. Enhancing time series detection algorithms for …