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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… for final diagnoses. ED visits rates with an asthma chief com- plaint or diagnosis were highest among 4-11 year olds … -
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… and K Hayashi.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 66 Methods EARS is undergoing … to other systems (for example, DiSTRIBuTE, http://www. isdsdistribute.org/). The EARS program plans to also … Threats Journal G Rainisch and K Hayashi. 2011, 4:s144 www.eht-journal.org page 2/2 67 … -
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… BioSense, Fact Sheet Atlanta, GA. Available at http://www.cdc.gov/BioSense/files/fact_sheet.pdf For further … -
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… References:1 CDC. BioSense Site. Available from: http://www.cdc.gov/biosense. Accessed July 11, 2007. Advances in … -
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… (80% inpatient). 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% All S yn dr om es Bo tul ism Hem or rh ag ic Illn es s Ly mph ad en itis … h Sp ec ific In fec tio n Fe ve r P er ce nt o f S yn dr om e Outpatient Inpatient/Admitted Emergency Figure 2 …