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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 … -
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… age group comprised 39% of asthma visits. Below age 19, visit rates were higher among males and above age 19, rates … subsyndromes most frequently associated with an asthma visit were dyspnea (33%) for chief complaints and … for final diagnoses. ED visits rates with an asthma chief com- plaint or diagnosis were highest among 4-11 year olds … -
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… department (ED) visits, outpatient (OP) reasons for visit, and inpatient (IP) reasons for admit were examined … was the patient class with the highest exposure-related visit rate: 14.3/1000 ED chief complaint visits. Exposure-related visits for OP reason for visit and IP reason for admit were 1/1000 OP visits and … -
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… data for this paper consisted of daily military clinical visit count data from the Department of Defense (DoD) for … of 28, 56, and 112 days were used to make one-day-ahead visit count predictions. For each forecast, the baseline … -
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… July 4th, 5th, or both days. Among these four areas, burn visit counts ranged from 24 to 36 per day and rates from …