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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.… according to local preferences. However, this disparity may also hinder comparison of biosurveillance data from … nationally notifiable infectious diseases; 3) reasons for visit from CDC’s Hurricane Morbidity Report Form for Active … -
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… in all 50 states over the period of October 2003 to May 2007 were used for this analysis. The weekly propor- … at the national and regional levels. A lag analysis to com- pare timing of increases and decreases in antiviral use …