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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… diagnoses), and captures about 11% of all U.S. ED visits. OBJECTIVE To describe the potential utility of … for final diagnoses. ED visits rates with an asthma chief com- plaint or diagnosis were highest among 4-11 year olds … p=0.0001; the median number of facilities per cluster was 26 (range 4-38); the clusters were centered in 9 states, and … -
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… “exposure” sub-syndrome. OBJECTIVE To identify hospital visits with chief complaints concerning exposures, … department (ED) visits, outpatient (OP) reasons for visit, and inpatient (IP) reasons for admit were examined … (e.g. Chlamydia); or (8)other/unknown. RESULTS A total of 26,627 exposure-related visits were identified, 22,437 to …