Table 1. Distribution of hospital emergency department visits and mean count per day, by syndrome and dataset, for selected BioSense data used in algorithm modification study*.
| Syndrome | Department of Defense clinic diagnosis |
Hospital emergency department chief complaint |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean count/d | % Facility–syndrome days | Mean count/d | % Facility–syndrome days | ||
| Botulism-like | 2.5 | 3.8 | 0.9 | 1.8 | |
| Fever | 4.4 | 10.1 | 6.3 | 14.3 | |
| Gastrointestinal | 8.9 | 13.7 | 14.5 | 14.7 | |
| Hemorrhagic | 2.2 | 5.7 | 2.6 | 13.6 | |
| Localized cutaneous lesion | 3.0 | 10.8 | 2.6 | 13.2 | |
| Lymphadenitits | 1.1 | 4.8 | NA | 0† | |
| Neurologic | 3.6 | 10.6 | 5.2 | 14.4 | |
| Rash | 4.3 | 11.2 | 2.2 | 13.1 | |
| Respiratory | 26.0 | 16.0 | 20.0 | 14.7 | |
| Severe injury and death | 2.2 | 2.6 | NA | 0† | |
| Specific infection | 3.2 | 10.7 | NA‡ | 0‡ | |
| All | 7.7 | 100 | 7.8 | 100 | |
*NA, not applicable. †Facilities were not included because none had mean counts >0.5 for syndromes. ‡Chief complaint data are not assigned to this syndrome.