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  • 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
    … from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s website ( http://emergency.cdc.gov/surveillance/ears/ ). It … from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s website (http:// emergency.cdc.gov/surveillance/ears/). It … algorithms for automated biosur- veillance. Emerg Infect Dis 2009;15:4. Figure 2 Screen example of the EARS-SAS …
  • Anthrax Assist: Modeling Tool for Planning and Decision Support During Early Days of an Anthrax Event

    Content Type: Webinar

    Presented April 24, 2018. *This article was selected as the second prize awardee of the 2018 ISDS Awards for Outstanding Research… read more
    … the best-available scientific evidence Nuanced in scale (i.e. not “all or nothing” responses) 5 Locally applicable: event scale … modeled with Anthrax Assist Persons begin in the top Incubation state and may transition via the numbered …
  • 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
    … and diagnoses) was added. Various diagnoses from all sources are binned into one or more of 11 syndrome … and diagnoses) was added. Various diagnoses from all sources are binned into one or more of 11 syndrome … of differences in available data, visits were defined dif- ferently for the 3 data types. For VA and hospital …
  • 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
    … (e.g. Chlamydia); or (8)other/unknown. RESULTS A total of 26,627 exposure-related visits were identified, 22,437 to … exposure categories, chemical was the most frequent for all patient classes among visits with a known or specified …
  • 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
    … 182 send physician diagnoses), and captures about 11% of all U.S. ED visits.   OBJECTIVE To describe the potential … 182 send physician diagnoses), and captures about 11% of all U.S. ED visits. METHODS We conducted a retrospective … p=0.0001; the median number of facilities per cluster was 26 (range 4-38); the clusters were centered in 9 states, and …
  • 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
    … Each year, more than two-thirds of all fireworksrelated injuries occur during June 16-July 16 … holiday. BACKGROUND Each year, more than two-thirds of all fireworks- related injuries occur during June 16-July 16 … of these burns could be directly linked to fireworks due to current data limitations, burn injury visits exceeded …
  • Criteria for Prioritizing Statisitical Anomalies Identified in BioSense

    Content Type: Abstract

    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
    … 1 data anomaly on 3/15/07 C: 1 day 5. GI syndrome cluster due to synthetic data for a drill at one hospital ED, 1 data …
  • 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
    … 10%. For the 3 most common ED CC sub- syndromes (i.e,. abd pain, diarrhea, nausea), ED diagnoses often … [difficulty swallowing], and 787.91-diarrhea. For all three data sources, the abdominal pain sub-syndrome was …