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CDC BioSense: Tarrant County, Texas

Dataset Summary

Agency	Department of Health and Human Services
Sub-Agency/Organization	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Category	Health and Nutrition
Date Released	03/01/2011
Date Updated	Weekly
Time Period	2007 - Present
Frequency	Weekly
Description	The Tarrant County Public Health (TCPH) and Biosense collaboration is an effort to visualize TCPH health data collected by Biosense using Google Fusion Table technology and make that visualization publicly available. The data consists of patient visits to hospital emergency departments associated with Tarrant County Public Health (TCPH) that had the illness Gastro Intestinal, Heat Related, or Upper Respiratory divided by all emergency department visits that occurred for the same time period and in the geographic granularity for which the calculation was made.

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Dataset Information

Data.gov Data Category Type	Tool Catalog
Specialized Data Category Designation	Surveillance
Keywords	surveillance, prevalence, trends, visualization, health-related behaviors, preventive practices, health care access, chronic disease, injury, infectious disease, emergency hospital visits, gastro-intestinal, heat related, upper respiratory, community.health
Unique ID	4656

Contributing Agency Information

Citation	http://www.cdc.gov/biosense/
Agency Program Page	http://www.cdc.gov/osels/ph_surveillance/index.html
Agency Data Series Page	http://www.cdc.gov/biosense/

Dataset Coverage

Unit of Analysis	The ratio of Patient Visits in hospital emergency departments in the Tarrant County, Texas area that had the illness Gastro Intestinal, Heat Related, or Upper Respiratory divided by All Emergency Department Visits that occurred for the same time period in the geographic granularity for which the calculation was made.
Granularity	zip code
Geographic Coverage	Six counties in Texas including Tarrant County and the 5 other counties that surround it: Dallas, Ellis, Johnson, Hood, Parker, and Denton

Data Description

Collection Mode	person/computer
Data Collection Instrument	http://www.google.com/publicdata/directory
Data Dictionary/Variable List	http://www.google.com/publicdata/directory

Additional Dataset Documentation

Technical Documentation	http://www.google.com/publicdata/directory
Additional Metadata

OMB Control No. 3090-0284