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Antiviral Prescription Data to Enhance Influenza Surveillance
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Influenza surveillance provides public health officials and healthcare providers with data on the onset, duration, geographic location, and level of influenza activity in order to guide the local use of interventions. The Influenza Sentinel Provider… read more… dataset from approximately 30,000 pharmacies in all 50 states over the period of October 2003 to May 2007 … and 2004-5 influenza seasons, but volume of prescriptions de- creased precipitously after CDC recommended dis- continuation of their use for influenza treatment dur- … -
Defining Clinical Condition Categories for Biosurveillance
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The goal of this project is to create a set of clinical condition categories based on explicit criteria for use in biosurveillance programs. The categories will be defined and keywords and ICD-9-CM diagnosis codes for implementation will be proposed.… 1) must support biosurveillance of disease outbreaks due to bioterrorism category A, B, and C agents and other …