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  • Defining Clinical Condition Categories for Biosurveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    The goal of this project is to create a set of clinical condition categories based on explicit criteria for use in biosurveillance programs. The categories will be defined and keywords and ICD-9-CM diagnosis codes for implementation will be proposed.
    … to local preferences. However, this disparity may also hinder comparison of biosurveillance data from different … nationally notifiable infectious diseases; 3) reasons for visit from CDC’s Hurricane Morbidity Report Form for Active …
  • The New York State BioSense Sentinel Alert Experience

    Content Type: Abstract

    In addition to monitoring Emergency Department chief complaint data and pharmacy sales as indicators of outbreaks, the New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) Syndromic Surveillance System also monitors information from the… read more
    … mine case resolution, and providing user-level feed- back to the CDC to effect system improvements. BACKGROUND In … mation: patient age, gender, coded patient ID and/or visit ID. Although all 8 alerts were determined to be “false …
  • Use of Final Diagnosis Data for Surveillance of Respiratory Syncytial Virus

    Content Type: Abstract

    The BioSense system receives patient level clinical data from > 370 hospitals and 1100 ambulatory care Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs medical facilities. Visits are assigned as appropriate to 78 sub-syndromes… read more
    … We could not de-duplicate DoD patient visits due to lack of a longitudinal patient identifier. We analyzed ICD-9 … with a period of latency between the time of the patient visit and when the data are available to BioSense; however, …
  • 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
    … 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

    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
    … 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

    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
    … 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 …
  • BioSense Participation by Non-Federal Hospitals

    Content Type: Abstract

    BioSense is a national program designed to improve the nation’s capabilities for conducting disease detection, monitoring, and real-time situational awareness. Currently, BioSense receives near real-time data from non-federal hospitals, as well as… read more
    … in the Bio- Sense program send emergency department visit in- formation, in addition to these data approximately … the study period, 95% of these records contained a chief com- plaint, 14% a working diagnosis, and 37% a final … total number of outpatient visits, 87% had a reason for visit, 33% a working diagnosis, and 53% a final diagnosis. …
  • Clostridium Difficile, Surveillance Using Laboratory Data from BioSense Hospitals

    Content Type: Abstract

    To determine the feasibility of using BioSense laboratory data to do surveillance on Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) and calculate overall and facility rates of disease.
    … outpatient), admission and discharge dates, and visit denominator data for rate calculations. A patient was …