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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… was a 2- to 5-day lag time between the time of patient visit and time when ICD-9-CM-coded final diagnoses were … for the following keywords indicating a KI-related visit: (1) potas*, pottas*; (2) iodine, iodide; (3) KI; (4) … radiation, radeation; (5) nuclea*; (6) Japan. A given ED visit was considered a match if the content of the CC met … -
Analyses of National Syndromic Surveillance Data: Real-Time Hospital, Veterans Affairs (VA) & Department of Defense (DoD) Data
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Since July 2004 the BioSense program at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has received data from DoD military and VA outpatient clinics (not in real time). In January 2006 real-time hospital data (e.g. chief complaints and… read more… to 6/11/06. Because of differences in available data, visits were defined dif- ferently for the 3 data types. For VA and hospital data, repeat visits within 24 hours of discharge were grouped into a single visit. For DoD data, each visit to a facility, regardless of … -
Geographic Categorization Methods Used in BioSense
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BioSense is a CDC initiative to promote situational awareness through summarizing, analyzing, and presenting health related event information. Among the data sources collected and analyzed through the BioSense application are the Department of… read more… facility based on the alternate stan- dard deviation. Visits with a mileage less than or equal to the maximum distance cutoff were catego- rized as local visits, whereas visits with a mileage greater than the … -
BioSense Real-Time Data Initiative: Improving Emergency Preparedness- Monitoring Injury Sub-Syndromes
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Analysis of the BioSense data facilitates the identification, tracking, and management of emergent and routine health events, including potential bioterrorism events, injury related incidents and rapidly spreading naturally occurring events (1).… read more… ings, sprains & strains). RESULTS A total of 8,342,336 visits were recorded in the ED Chief Complaint category into … system from January 2, 2006 to July 18, 2007. Of all visits; the greatest proportion binned to the Respiratory … the most frequent were injury NOS (6.7% of total visits), open wounds (3.4%), falls (3.1%), and MVC (2.2%). …