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Abstract #302711

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Activity Number: 306
Type: Invited
Date/Time: Tuesday, August 9, 2005 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
Sponsor: Section on Statisticians in Defense and National Security
Abstract - #302711
Title: BioSense and the Statistical Challenges of National Biosurveillance
Author(s): Henry Rolka*+
Companies: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Address: 1600 Clifton Road, NE, Atlanta, GA, 30333, USA
Keywords: surveillance ; biosurveillance ; syndrome
Abstract:

The purpose of the BioSense Initiative is to support enhanced early detection and quantification of possible bioterrorism attacks and outbreaks. It is designed to provide public health officials with timely information about their community's health status and to support an early and effective public health response. The BioSense System is a surveillance tool that utilizes daily inputs of health-related data sources at the ZIP code level, maps the health indicator codes to syndrome categories, and enables jurisdictional accessibility to the data by authorized public health officials. BioSense currently includes data from ambulatory care visits and laboratory test orders. Data analysis in an empirical surveillance system that uses temporal and geographic context as a baseline against which to compare for early public health event detection is complicated by dynamic changes in reporting volumes and other data flow factors. An overview of BioSense will be provided that includes data acquisition characteristics, system implementation issues, and a statistical analytic strategy. A status update on the current level of implementation and future plans also will be given.

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