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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… and Veterans Affairs (VA) outpatient clinical data (ICD-9-CM diagnoses and CPT procedure codes), and LabCorp test … and Veterans Affairs (VA) outpatient clinical data (ICD-9-CM diagnoses and CPT proce- dure codes), and LabCorp test … and Veterans Affairs (VA) outpatient clinical data (ICD-9-CM diagnoses and CPT procedure codes), and LabCorp test … -
BioSense Sentinel Alert Experience: New Jersey, November, 2004
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BioSense is a national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) initiative to improve the nation's capabilities for early event detection and situational awareness. BioSense data includes Department of Defense and Veterans Affairs ambulatory… read more… for system improvements. References [1] PHIN: BioSense. www.cdc.gov/phin/ [2] Syndrome Definitions for Diseases … Bioterrorism-Associated Agents. Accessed at: http://www.bt.cdc.gov/surveillance/syndromedef/index.asp [3] … -
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… Bioterrorism-Associated Agents. Accessed at: http://www.bt.cdc.gov/surveillance/syndromedef/index.asp [2] … -
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… I. Tokars, MD1, Roseanne English1, Theresa L. Smith, MD2, Col- leen Bradley, MSPH1, Leslie Sokolow1,3, Henry Rolka, …