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Effective Use of Laboratory Data for Monitoring Population Health
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Effective public health response to emerging infectious diseases, natural disasters, and bioterrorism requires access to real-time, accurate information on disease patterns and healthcare utilization. The ESSENCE surveillance… read more… which accurately characterize broad disease syndromes but may not be sufficient for monitoring specific diseases. DoD … disease syn- dromes based on ICD-9 diagnostic codes. We com- pared laboratory test orders to outpatient visits by … cultures Blood cultures Respiratory cultures 453 64 26 1 1046 113 42 4 1 0.349 0.354 0.450 San Diego Area …