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  • Content Type: Abstract

    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 …
  • Content Type: Abstract

    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 …