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Customizing ESSENCE Queries for Select Mental Health Sub-indicators
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Syndromic surveillance systems, although initially developed in response to bioterrorist threats, are increasingly being used at the local, state, and national level to support early identification of infectious disease and other emerging threats to… read more… queries to meet local needs, especially monitoring ED visits in near-real time during public health emergencies, … BioSense Platform, representing about 55 percent of ED visits in the United States (2). The platform's surveillance … new queries. Objective : Emergency department (ED) visits related to mental health (MH) disorders have … -
Using Syndromic Surveillance Data to Study the Impact of Media Content on Self-harm
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In 2016, a half million people were treated in U.S. emergency departments (EDs) as a result of self-harm. 1 Not only is self-harm a major cause of morbidity in the U.S., but it is also one of the best predictors of suicide. Given that approximately… read more… Given that approximately 40% of suicide decedents visited an ED in the year prior to their death and that the … or temporal clusters of SA/SI, is observed. Such patterns may be indicative of suicide contagion (i.e., exposure to … Given that approximately 40% of suicide decedents visited an ED in the year prior to their death and that the …