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  • 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
    … Syndromic Surveillance Coordinator monitors the BioSense website. From February through May 2005, all Sentinel Alerts reported on the BioSense website were followed up with the appro- priate LHD staff …
  • Surveillance of West Nile Virus Activity Using Biosense Laboratory Test Order Data

    Content Type: Abstract

    West Nile Virus (WNV) is a mosquito-borne virus that can cause meningitis and encephalitis. Since its discovery in New York City during an encephalitis outbreak in 1999, WNV has become endemic in North America. In the United States, 16,000 human WNV… read more
    … dataset. A geographic analysis was performed to show the dis- tribution of three WNV laboratory test orders. ICD-9 … WNV-PCR, 2,594 for Entero-PCR, and 10,663 for Herpes-PCR. Top five states with counts of three WNV-specific laboratory …
  • 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 …
  • Representativeness of Emergency Department Data Reported to the BioSense System

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    In 2007, the CDC BioSense System received data from 450 non-federal hospitals. Hospitals provide data to Biosense based on their capability and willingness to supply electronic data. As of July 2008, Biosense is receiving data from 550 hospitals.… read more
    … BioSense were: infections (ICD-9 codes 001-139) 3.0% vs 2.6%; respiratory (codes 460-519) 11.0% vs 9.3%; digestive … 19.3% vs 1.3%; Midwest, 24.9% vs 64.7%; South 38.0% vs 26.8%; and West 17.7% vs 7.3%. After applying BioSense … BioSense in the Severe Illness or Death syndrome may be due to sampling error of this rare event. Currently, …
  • BioSense Real-Time Data Initiative: Improving Emergency Preparedness- Monitoring Injury Sub-Syndromes

    Content Type: Abstract

    Analysis of the BioSense data facilitates the identification, tracking, and management of emergent and routine health events, including potential bioterrorism events, injury related incidents and rapidly spreading naturally occurring events (1).… read more
    … events (1).  BioSense enhances coordination between all levels of public health and healthcare by providing … events (1). BioSense enhances coordination between all levels of public health and healthcare by providing … Awareness System. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2005 Aug 26;54 Suppl:11-9. [3] Sokolow LZ, Grady N, Rolka H, Walker …
  • 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

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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
    … 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 …
  • 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
    … and hospital data from 7/1/06 to 4/31/07. We could not de-duplicate DoD patient visits due to lack of a longitudinal patient identifier. We …