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Mental Illness and Co-morbid Conditions: BioSense 2008 - 2011
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Understanding the relationship between mental illness and medical comorbidity is an important aspect of public health surveillance. In 2004, an estimated one fourth of the US adults reported having a mental illness in the previous year (1). Studies… read more… Mental Illness and Co-morbid Conditions: BioSense 2008 - 2011 … -
Quantifying the relationship between influenza-related emergency department visits and hospital admissions in BioSense
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Real-time emergency department (ED) data from the BioSense surveillance program for ILI visits and ILI admissions provide valuable insight into disease severity that bridges gaps in traditional influenza surveillance systems that monitor ILI in… read more… et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 58 (ICD-9-CM codes 487 and 488) or an ILI-related chief complaint … Health Threats Journal AF McIntyre et al. 2011, 4:s99 www.eht-journal.org page 2/2 59 … -
Comparison of Distribute and ILINet for national influenza surveillance
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During the spring of 2009, a public health emergency was declared in response to the emergence of the 2009 Influenza A (H1N1) virus. Owing to the response, timely data were needed to improve situational awareness and to inform… read more… K Kniss et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 46 based syndromic surveillance, and … 2010. References 1 Distribute background at: http://www.isdsdistribute.org/faq.php. 2 Influenza Surveillance Background: http://www.cdc.gov/flu/ weekly/fluactivity.htm. Comparison of … -
Post-disaster Surveillance Following the Tsunami in Japan: BioSense 2011
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The CDC's BioSense Program receives near real-time health care utilization data from a number of sources, including Department of Defense (DoD) healthcare facilities from around the globe and non-federal hospital emergency departments (EDs) in the… read more… Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD- 9-CM) 990, 508.0, 558.1, E926 and E926.9. There was a 2- to … between the time of patient visit and time when ICD-9-CM-coded final diagnoses were available. To monitor … 1. Tokars JI, Burkom H, Xing J, English R, Bloom S, Cox K, et al. Enhancing time series detection algorithms for … -
Finding Time-of-Arrival Clusters of Exposure-Related Visits to Emergency Departments in Contiguous Hospital Groups
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Time-of-arrival (TOA) surveillance methodology consists of identifying clusters of patients arriving to a hospital emergency department (ED) with similar complaints within a short temporal interval. TOA monitoring of ED visit data is currently… read more… 2011. 2. Tokars JI, Burkom H, Xing J, English R, Bloom S, Cox K, et al. Enhancing time-series detection algorithms for … -
Syndromic Surveillance for Bicycle Related Injuries in Boston, 2007-2010
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In May of 2001, Boston released a strategic transportation plan to improve bicycle access and safety. [1] According to the Boston Transportation Department, ridership has increased 122% between 2007 and 2009. [2] A collaborative public health and… read more… ZIP code of residence, chief complaints and ICD-9 CM-coded final diagnosis. Disposition information was … case definition that combined chief complaint and ICD-9 CM-coded information and excluded motor cycle only related …