Evaluating the BioSense Syndrome for Heat-Related Illness in Maricopa County, Arizona | Zendy

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Evaluating the BioSense Syndrome for Heat-Related Illness in Maricopa County, Arizona

Author(s) -

Jessica White,

Kate Goodin,

Vjollca Berisha

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

online journal of public health informatics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 1947-2579

DOI - 10.5210/ojphi.v8i1.6593

Subject(s) - medical record , medicine , heat illness , surgery , meteorology , geography

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the pre-defined "Heat, excessive" query in BioSense 2.0 using data from Maricopa County, Arizona. BioSense was used to produce a line list of 539 patient records from the period between 1/1/15 and 8/15/15. Records with a clinical diagnosis for heat-related illness (HRI) were classified as confirmed HRI cases (N = 268). The chief complaints of the remaining 271 records were reviewed manually; 148 records were probable HRI cases and 91 records were ruled out for HRI. To make the query more specific, a list of potential exclusion terms was created and evaluated.

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