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  • The Performance of Sub-Syndrome Chief Complaint Classifiers for the GI and RESP Syndromes

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    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention BioSense has developed chief complaint (CC) and ICD9 sub syndrome classifiers for the major syndromes for early event detection and situational awareness. The prevalence of these sub… read more
    … 1.00 Pleurisy 0.22% 0.02 1.00 0.22 1.00 Resp Failure 0.26% 0.00 1.00 0.08 1.00 Table 2 – Gastrointestinal …
  • The Predictive Accuracy of Non-Regression Data Analysis Methods

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    Analysis of time series data requires accurate calculation of a predicted value. Non-regression methods such as the Early Aberration Reporting System CuSum are computationally simple, but most do not adjust for day of week… read more
    … days were analyzed at 75 (56 VA and 19 DoD) Texas and 26 (19 VA and 17 DoD) Virginia facilities. The mean observed … <.01 for severe injury/death to 21.0 for respiratory. For all facilities and syndromes, the mean observed daily count …
  • Antiviral Prescription Data to Enhance Influenza Surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    Influenza surveillance provides public health officials and healthcare providers with data on the onset, duration, geographic location, and level of influenza activity in order to guide the local use of interventions. The Influenza Sentinel Provider… read more
    … dataset from approximately 30,000 pharmacies in all 50 states over the period of October 2003 to May 2007 … and 2004-5 influenza seasons, but volume of prescriptions de- creased precipitously after CDC recommended dis- continuation of their use for influenza treatment dur- …
  • ICD-9 CM Based Sub-Syndrome Distributions in BioSense Hospital Data

    Content Type: Abstract

    Objective To examine sub-syndrome distributions among BioSense emergency department (ED) chief complaint and final diagnosis based data and to observe patterns by hospital system, age, and gender.
    … sub-syndrome distributions were compared. Results Across all hospital systems, the 5 most common ED chief … c Fa lls D iz zi ne ss H em or rh ag e R as h C ou gh E de m a O tit is m ed ia P re gn an cy , ch ild bi rth , M al … 8/31/2006 0 5000 10000 15000 20000 25000 30000 M en ta l di so rd er s S pr ai ns a nd st ra in s A bd om in al pa in …
  • Monitoring Influenza Activity Using the BioSense System, 2003-2005

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    One of the standard approaches to public health surveillance for influenza is to monitor the percent of visits to about 2000 sentinel physicians for influenza-like illness (%ILI; fever plus cough or sore throat). The BioSense System currently… read more
    … an independent predictor. Principal components analysis did not identify any combinations of ICD-9 codes that were better predictors of %ILI. Analyses of lagged data did not show stronger correlations, indicating that seasonal …
  • 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.
    … from US short-stay hospitals, 1996-2003. Emerg Infect Dis. 2006 Mar;12(3):409-15. [2] McDonald LC, Killgore GE, …
  • Defining Clinical Condition Categories for Biosurveillance

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    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.
    … 1) must support biosurveillance of disease outbreaks due to bioterrorism category A, B, and C agents and other …
  • Burns Reported to the BioSense System During the Independence Day Holiday

    Content Type: Abstract

    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
    … Each year, more than two-thirds of all fireworksrelated injuries occur during June 16-July 16 … holiday. BACKGROUND Each year, more than two-thirds of all fireworks- related injuries occur during June 16-July 16 … of these burns could be directly linked to fireworks due to current data limitations, burn injury visits exceeded …