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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… If any sys- tem-related difficulties arose during follow-up activi- ties, these were reported to BioSense … plague and 1 Russian spring-summer encephalitis. Upon follow up, all 8 alerts were determined to not repre- sent … mation: patient age, gender, coded patient ID and/or visit ID. Although all 8 alerts were determined to be “false … -
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… specimen, not necessarily one unique patient, due to lack of patient linkage capability in our dataset. A …