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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… 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
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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… 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 …