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Advanced Querying Features for Disease Surveillance Systems
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Automated disease surveillance systems that analyze data by syndrome categories have been used to look for outbreaks of disease for about 10 years. Most of these systems notify users of increases in the prevalence of reports in syndrome categories… read more… interface will be evaluated in future versions of the ESSENCE and BioSense Systems. … project is to evaluate the prototype tool in BioSense and ESSENCE. After the tool has been evaluated and … -
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.… categories (called “sub- syndromes” in the BioSense and ESSENCE programs) for analysis of electronic health data in … Harmonizing clinical condition categories in BioSense and ESSENCE will allow more consistency in interpretation of …