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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… diagnoses), and captures about 11% of all U.S. ED visits. OBJECTIVE To describe the potential utility of … diagnoses), and captures about 11% of all U.S. ED visits. METHODS We conducted a retrospective analysis of ED … age group comprised 39% of asthma visits. Below age 19, visit rates were higher among males and above age 19, rates … -
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… “exposure” sub-syndrome. OBJECTIVE To identify hospital visits with chief complaints concerning exposures, … 2SRA International, Inc. 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 … -
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… 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 … July 4th, 5th, or both days. Among these four areas, burn visit counts ranged from 24 to 36 per day and rates from … -
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… to 6/11/06. Because of differences in available data, visits were defined dif- ferently for the 3 data types. For VA and hospital data, repeat visits within 24 hours of discharge were grouped into a single visit. For DoD data, each visit to a facility, regardless of … -
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… models: day-of-week, holiday, total daily health facility visits, and a trend variable (date). Models using different … 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 … -
The Use of BioSense Data for Surveillance of Gastrointestinal Illness
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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
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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… baseline/comparison period, an adjustment for total visits (or other denominator), and an option for stratifying …