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Use of Final Diagnosis Data for Surveillance of Respiratory Syncytial Virus
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The BioSense system receives patient level clinical data from > 370 hospitals and 1100 ambulatory care Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs medical facilities. Visits are assigned as appropriate to 78 sub-syndromes… read more… We could not de-duplicate DoD patient visits due to lack of a longitudinal patient identifier. We analyzed ICD-9 … with a period of latency between the time of the patient visit and when the data are available to BioSense; however, …