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Automated Monitoring of Exposures Using the BioSense System
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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 -
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 -
BioSense Real-Time Data Initiative: Improving Emergency Preparedness- Monitoring Injury Sub-Syndromes
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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 -
Burns Reported to the BioSense System During the Independence Day Holiday
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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 -
ICD-9 CM Based Sub-Syndrome Distributions in BioSense Hospital Data
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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. -
Identifying Clusters of Falls During the 2007-08 Winter Season in the BioSense System
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The purposes of this study are to identify and characterize increases in emergency department (ED) visits for falls during the 2007-08 winter season. -
Identifying Fractures in BioSense Radiology Reports
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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. -
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

