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Identifying Clusters of Falls During the 2007-08 Winter Season in the BioSense System
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The purposes of this study are to identify and characterize increases in emergency department (ED) visits for falls during the 2007-08 winter season. -
Identifying Fractures in BioSense Radiology Reports
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The purposes of this study are to validate a keyword-based text parsing algorithm for identifying fractures and compare radiology results with chief complaint and ICD-9 final diagnoses. -
Mental Illness and Co-morbid Conditions: BioSense 2008 - 2011
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Understanding the relationship between mental illness and medical comorbidity is an important aspect of public health surveillance. In 2004, an estimated one fourth of the US adults reported having a mental illness in the previous year (1). Studies… read more -
Evaluation of Clinical and Administrative Data to Augment Public Health Surveillance
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Medical claims and EHR data sources offer the potential to ascertain disease and health risk behavior prevalence and incidence, evaluate the use of clinical services, and monitor changes related to public health interventions. Passage of the HITECH… read more -
Post-disaster Surveillance Following the Tsunami in Japan: BioSense 2011
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The CDC's BioSense Program receives near real-time health care utilization data from a number of sources, including Department of Defense (DoD) healthcare facilities from around the globe and non-federal hospital emergency departments (EDs) in the… read more -
Customizing ESSENCE Queries for Select Mental Health Sub-indicators
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Syndromic surveillance systems, although initially developed in response to bioterrorist threats, are increasingly being used at the local, state, and national level to support early identification of infectious disease and other emerging threats to… read more -
Use of N-grams and Term Relationship Graphs in the Syndrome Definition Development Process
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The use of syndromic surveillance systems has evolved over the last decade, and increasingly includes both infectious and non- infectious topic areas. Public health agencies at the national, state, and local levels often need to rapidly develop new… read more -
Use of Diagnosis Code in Mental Health Syndrome Definition
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Between 2006 and 2013, the rate of emergency department (ED) visits related to mental and substance use disorders increased substantially. This increase was higher for mental disorders visits (55 percent for depression, anxiety or stress reactions… read more