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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 -
Automated Monitoring of Asthma Using the BioSense System
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In 2006, approximately 6.8 million children and 16.1 million adults were reported to have asthma in the US. The CDC BioSense System currently receives data from >540 hospital emergency departments (EDs; 522 send patient chief… read more -
Automated Monitoring of Exposures Using the BioSense System
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BioSense is a national automated surveillance system designed to enhance the nation's capability to rapidly detect and quantify public health emergencies, by accessing and analyzing diagnostic and prediagnostic health data. The… read more -
Burns Reported to the BioSense System During the Independence Day Holiday
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Each year, more than two-thirds of all fireworksrelated injuries occur during June 16-July 16 [1]. During the 2006 July 4th holiday weekend, thousands of people were treated in emergency departments (EDs) for fireworks-related injuries [2]. Over 50… read more -
Criteria for Prioritizing Statisitical Anomalies Identified in BioSense
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Objective To describe a standard set of criteria for identifying potentially important anomalies and to compare the criteria with several recent public health events. read more -
Anthrax Assist: Modeling Tool for Planning and Decision Support During Early Days of an Anthrax Event
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Presented April 24, 2018. *This article was selected as the second prize awardee of the 2018 ISDS Awards for Outstanding Research… read more -
Early Aberration Reporting System (EARS) update: present and future
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Early Aberration Reporting System (EARS, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, EARS Program, MS C-18, Atlanta, GA, USA) is a freeware surveillance tool that can be downloaded from the Center for Disease Control and… read more -
Syndromic Prediction Power: Comparing Covariates and Baselines
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The eleven syndrome classifications for clinical data records monitored by BioSense include rare events such as death or lymphadenitis and also common occurrences such as respiratory infections. BioSense currently uses two statistical methods for… read more