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  • Rapid Identification of Pneumonias in BioSense Data Using Radiology Text Reports

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    BioSense currently receives demographic and chief complaint data from more than 360 hospitals and text radiology reports from 36 hospitals. Detection of pneumonia is an important as several Category A bioterrorism diseases as well as avian influenza… read more
    … text reports are often received within 1-2 days and may provide a faster way to identify pneumonia than coded … reports of chest X-rays performed for 42,510 hospital visits (which corresponds to 34,883 patients) and the … Armen Asatryan, MD, MPH E-mail: armen.asatryan@saic.com Advances in Disease Surveillance 2007;4:82 … BioSense …
  • Evaluation of Spatial Estimation Methods for Cluster Detection

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    CDC’s BioSense system provides near-real time situational awareness for public health monitoring through analysis of electronic health data. Determination of anomalous spatial and temporal disease clusters is a crucial part of… read more
    … find irrelevant clusters, and clusters of importance may be missed. While many studies have focused on improved … will find irrelevant clusters, and clusters of importance may be missed. While many studies have focused on improved … find irrelevant clusters, and clusters of importance may be missed. While many studies have focused on improved …
  • Results from the BioSense Jurisdiction-Specific Wbinars

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    BioSense is a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) national near real-time public health surveillance system. CDC’s BioIntelligence Center (BIC) analysts monitor, analyze, and interpret BioSense data daily and provide support to BioSense… read more
    … jurisdictionspecific communication protocols. In May 2006, BioSense hosted a face-to-face meeting in Atlanta … jurisdiction- specific communication protocols. In May 2006, BioSense hosted a face-to-face meeting in Atlanta … jurisdictionspecific communication protocols. In May 2006, BioSense hosted a face-to-face meeting in Atlanta …
  • BioSense Participation by Non-Federal Hospitals

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    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
    … the Bio- Sense application. About 11% of total U.S. ED visits are sent to BioSense, 10% via state or local health … 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. …
  • 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 … facility-month was: Hospital, 0.3 million and 1,708; DoD, 2.6 mil- lion and 230; and VA, 3.9 million and 190. The …
  • Performance of Sub-Syndrome Chief Complaint Classifiers for the GI Syndrome

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    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention BioSense project has developed chief complaint (CC) and ICD9 sub-syndrome classifiers for the major syndromes for early event detection and situational awareness. This has the potential to… read more
    … a retrospective study of emergency department (ED) visits at four New York State hospitals from May 1, 2005 to April 30, 2007. These hospitals have annual ED visits ranging from 24,000 to 33,000 and have electronic … the older age groups. Three physicians then assigned the visits nonexclusively to the sub-syndromes by electronic …
  • The Use of BioSense Data for Surveillance of Gastrointestinal Illness

    Content Type: Abstract

    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
    … mapped to: 1) the same indicator (e.g., whether patient visits having a chief complaint of diarrhea also had a final … alone were completed on 343 hospitals while analyses on visits requiring both an ED CCs and final diagnoses were … average rate for the GI syndrome was 140 per 1000 visits (range: 115-170 among facilities) for ED CC and 120 …
  • Identifying Fractures in BioSense Radiology Reports

    Content Type: Abstract

    The purposes of this study are to validate a keyword-based text parsing algorithm for identifying fractures and compare radiology results with chief complaint and ICD-9 final diagnoses.
    … and pharmeutical receipt. METHODS We studied 17,647 visits with an extremity film and final ICD-9 coded … we applied the text parsing algorithm to all 17,647 visits with a text radiography reading. Of these, 73% were … good agreement with discharge ICD-9 codes; disagreements may have occurred because of inaccuracies in the text …