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The New York State BioSense Sentinel Alert Experience
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In addition to monitoring Emergency Department chief complaint data and pharmacy sales as indicators of outbreaks, the New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) Syndromic Surveillance System also monitors information from the… read more… Syndromic Surveillance Coordinator monitors the BioSense website. From February through May 2005, all Sentinel Alerts reported on the BioSense website were followed up with the appro- priate LHD staff … -
Surveillance of West Nile Virus Activity Using Biosense Laboratory Test Order Data
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West Nile Virus (WNV) is a mosquito-borne virus that can cause meningitis and encephalitis. Since its discovery in New York City during an encephalitis outbreak in 1999, WNV has become endemic in North America. In the United States, 16,000 human WNV… read more… dataset. A geographic analysis was performed to show the dis- tribution of three WNV laboratory test orders. ICD-9 … WNV-PCR, 2,594 for Entero-PCR, and 10,663 for Herpes-PCR. Top five states with counts of three WNV-specific laboratory … -
Visualizing and Monitoring Data in BioSense Using SaTScan
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BioSense data includes Department of Defense and Veterans Affairs ambulatory care diagnoses and procedures, as well as Laboratory Corporation of America lab test orders. Data are mapped to eleven syndrome categories. SaTScan is a spatio-temporal… read more… to each national data source and displays results for all states and metropolitan areas (MRA) in jurisdictionally … for each data source that lists summary information for all clusters. The cluster circle on the map indicates if a … Warning System for West Nile Virus Activity. Emerg Infect Dis 2003:9(6):641-646. [4] Kleinman K, Lazarus R, Platt R. A …