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  • Automated Monitoring of Asthma Using the BioSense System

    Content Type: Abstract

    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
    … diagnoses), and captures about 11% of all U.S. ED visits.   OBJECTIVE To describe the potential utility of … for final diagnoses. ED visits rates with an asthma chief com- plaint or diagnosis were highest among 4-11 year olds … p=0.0001; the median number of facilities per cluster was 26 (range 4-38); the clusters were centered in 9 states, and …
  • Automated Monitoring of Exposures Using the BioSense System

    Content Type: Abstract

    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
    … “exposure” sub-syndrome.   OBJECTIVE To identify hospital visits with chief complaints concerning exposures, … department (ED) visits, outpatient (OP) reasons for visit, and inpatient (IP) reasons for admit were examined … (e.g. Chlamydia); or (8)other/unknown. RESULTS A total of 26,627 exposure-related visits were identified, 22,437 to …
  • Burns Reported to the BioSense System During the Independence Day Holiday

    Content Type: Abstract

    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
    … receives near real-time data from >11% of total U.S. ED visits. Most data is sent to BioSense by state or local … receives near real-time data from >11% of total U.S. ED visits. Most data is sent to BioSense by state or local … burns affected extremities [n=60, 30.2%], face [n=14, 7.0%], and other sites [n=125, 62.8%]. Only 17 (8.5%) of …
  • Results from the BioSense Jurisdiction-Specific Wbinars

    Content Type: Abstract

    BioSense is a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) national near real-time public health surveillance system. CDC’s BioIntelligence Center (BIC) analysts monitor, analyze, and interpret BioSense data daily and provide support to BioSense… read more
    … jurisdictionspecific communication protocols. In May 2006, BioSense hosted a face-to-face meeting in Atlanta … jurisdiction- specific communication protocols. In May 2006, BioSense hosted a face-to-face meeting in Atlanta … jurisdictionspecific communication protocols. In May 2006, BioSense hosted a face-to-face meeting in Atlanta …
  • Analyses of National Syndromic Surveillance Data: Real-Time Hospital, Veterans Affairs (VA) & Department of Defense (DoD) Data

    Content Type: Abstract

    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 …
  • Syndromic Prediction Power: Comparing Covariates and Baselines

    Content Type: Abstract

    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
    … models: day-of-week, holiday, total daily health facility visits, and a trend variable (date). Models using different … were computed for syndromic counts of lymphadenitis visits, to represent rare syndromes, respiratory visits, to represent common syndromes, and gastrointestinal …
  • The Use of BioSense Data for Surveillance of Gastrointestinal Illness

    Content Type: Abstract

    The BioSense system currently receives real-time data from more than 370 hospitals, as well as national daily batched data from over 1100 Department of Defense and Veterans Affairs medical facilities. BioSense maps chief… read more
    … mapped to: 1) the same indicator (e.g., whether patient visits having a chief complaint of diarrhea also had a final … alone were completed on 343 hospitals while analyses on visits requiring both an ED CCs and final diagnoses were … average rate for the GI syndrome was 140 per 1000 visits (range: 115-170 among facilities) for ED CC and 120 …
  • Early Aberration Reporting System (EARS) update: present and future

    Content Type: Abstract

    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
    … baseline/comparison period, an adjustment for total visits (or other denominator), and an option for stratifying …