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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… within 24 hours of discharge were grouped into a single visit. For DoD data, each visit to a facility, regardless of … duration since the last dis- charge is considered as one visit. We calculated both the percent of total visits that … facility-month was: Hospital, 0.3 million and 1,708; DoD, 2.6 mil- lion and 230; and VA, 3.9 million and 190. The … -
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 … -
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… of DoD data based on the zip code of the health facility visited and the VA data based on the patient residence zip … facility based on the alternate stan- dard deviation. Visits with a mileage less than or equal to the maximum … -
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 … s, an im al Fractu res an d d isl oc ati on Pois onin g b y m ed icin es Spra ins and st rai ns Burn s Hea t, e xc es … Awareness System. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2005 Aug 26;54 Suppl:11-9. [3] Sokolow LZ, Grady N, Rolka H, Walker …