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  • Automated Monitoring of Exposures Using the BioSense System

    Content Type: Abstract

    BioSense is a national automated surveillance system designed to enhance the nation's capability to rapidly detect and quantify public health emergencies, by accessing and analyzing diagnostic and prediagnostic health data. The… read more
    … department (ED) visits, outpatient (OP) reasons for visit, and inpatient (IP) reasons for admit were examined … was the patient class with the highest exposure-related visit rate: 14.3/1000 ED chief complaint visits. Exposure-related visits for OP reason for visit and IP reason for admit were 1/1000 OP visits and …
  • A Simple Method of Using Linked Health Data in Syndromic Surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    This paper describes a simple technique for utilizing linked health information in syndromic surveillance. Using knowledge of which patient encounters resulted in laboratory test requests and prescriptions may improve sensitivity and specificity of… read more
    … streams (emergency department chief complaints, clinic visit International Classification of Disease Ninth Revi- … who were assigned certain ICD9 codes during an office visit also received specific laboratory requests and … of linked lab requests and prescriptions filled for each visit. This tally ranged from zero to greater than 9 and was …
  • Combining Laboratory Test Orders and Outpatient Visits to Monitor Respiratory Illness

    Content Type: Abstract

    To evaluate whether joint monitoring of laboratory test orders and outpatient visits improves the sensitivity and timeliness of alerting during seasonal increases in respiratory illness.
    … increases were detected in both laboratory and outpatient visit data, but the timeliness of the alerts varied. … alerted. Laboratory data alerted before outpatient visit data for 12 of 20 data streams, and on the same day … 0.79). The combined data alerted before the outpa- tient visit data for 13 of 20 data streams, with the median date …
  • Kansas Uses a Novel Approach to Assess Injuries to Agricultural Workers

    Content Type: Success Stories

    Agriculture can be a hazardous industry. Farmers, and oftentimes their family members, are at high risk for injuries, fatalities, and illness. Risks include exposure to pesticides on crop farms and use of tractors, farming equipment, and other… read more
    … animal care). He also looked at data by facility of visit occurrence. Combined, he captured any visit to a Kansas emergency department regardless of patient … animal care). He also looked at data by facility of visit occurrence. Combined, he captured any visit to a …
  • Monitoring Staphylococcus Infection Trends with Biosurveillance Data

    Content Type: Abstract

    Methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a leading cause of skin and soft tissue infections (SSTI). Until recently, S. aureus pneumonia has been considered primarily a nosocomial infection, and was reported… read more
    … The data elements include hospital name, date/time of visit, age, sex, zip code, chief complaint, disposition, diagnoses, and a patient and visit key. The PI hospitalization data also include whether … Among ED patients, 20.3% had at least one repeat visit for an SSTI; 55.2% of repeat visits were among 18-44 …
  • Analysis of Syndrome Definitions for Gastrointestinal Illness with ICD9 Codes for Gastroenteritis during the 2006-07 Norovirus Season in Boston

    Content Type: Abstract

    We report on a retrospective analysis of gastrointestinal syndrome definitions based on chief complaints and ICD9 diagnosis for gastroenteritis during the 2006-07 season of increased norovirus activity.
    … system receives daily, de- identified patient-visit data from 10 hospital emer- gency departments (EDs) in the city of Boston. For each patient-visit, data collected includes date of visit, chief complaint, gender, zipcode of residence, age, …
  • Functional Priorities Activity Report

    Content Type: Report

    The purpose of this document is to correlate BioSense activities (inclusive of CDC, BGG, User Community) with community defined functional priorities.
    … issues relating to discordance of data between front end/back end and line level exports • • • • • 2 Create and … metrics (DQ WG) • Develop Data Quality Metrics Script and Visit Level Message Aggregation tools (DQ WG) • Prototype …
  • How Syndromic Surveillance Helps Clinical Practice: Use of Epidemiological Surveillance Data to Inform Clinical Decisions

    Content Type: Webinar

    Presenter Dr. Andrew Fine, Assistant Professor, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School Hosts Johns Hopkins University Grand Rounds and ISDS Research Committee Date… read more
    … set – 2/3, 1/3 random split "   Data elements   Age   Visit Date   Clinic location   Clinical signs and symptoms … "   hoarseness, headache "   nausea, vomiting "   lack of rhinorrhea "   RLPP Calculation of Home score "   …