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  • Administrative and syndromic surveillance data can enhance public health surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    Healthcare data, including emergency department (ED) and outpatient health visit data, are potentially useful to the public health community for multiple purposes, including programmatic and surveillance activities. These data are collected through… read more
    … including emergency department (ED) and outpatient health visit data, are potentially useful to the public health … in NSSP, and the estimated nationalp ercentage of ED visits covered by the NSSP BioSense platform is 54%. NSSP’s … ESSENCE, also includes additional types of healthcare visit (e.g., urgent care) data. Although NSSP is designed to …
  • Customizing ESSENCE Queries for Select Mental Health Sub-indicators

    Content Type: Abstract

    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 …
  • BioSense Platform Data Flow - Part 2 - Introduction to ESSENCE Configuration for BioSense Platform

    Content Type: Webinar

    The National Syndromic Surveillance Program (NSSP) is conducting a three-part webinar series to describe how data will flow to the BioSense Platform. This comprehensive series explores how data are ingested into the BioSense Platform and ESSENCE… read more
    … push data into the ESSENCE application and how those data may appear on the front-end web application component of … 19860501 1986-01-01 00:00:00:000 Yesterday . May 1 . May 1. 1986 1986-01-01 00:00:00:000 BioSense Pla,orm … binning o  Support Web-based queries §  For each visit, ESSENCE populates each column with info present in …
  • Technical Challenges from the Public Health Practice Community to Statisticians and Analysts

    Content Type: Webinar

    On May 28th, 2009, the ISDS Research and Public Health Practice Committees hosted a joint panel with the goal of bringing current challenges faced by public health practitioners to the attention of the research community at large. Members of both… read more
    … On May 28th, 2009, the ISDS Research and Public Health Practice … of Health and Mental Hygiene Date and Time Thursday, May 28, 2009 Host ISDS Research and Public Health Practice … n  Problems with this approach: n  Each data source may represent different underlying populations n  Difficult …
  • Using Syndromic Surveillance Data to Study the Impact of Media Content on Self-harm

    Content Type: Abstract

    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 … of a friend or loved one, or through media content, that may put individuals at increased risk of suicidal behavior). …
  • Tracking suspected heroin overdoses in CDC's National Syndromic Surveillance Program

    Content Type: Abstract

    Overdose deaths involving opioids (i.e., opioid pain relievers and illicit opioids such as heroin) accounted for at least 63% (N = 33,091) of overdose deaths in 2015. Overdose deaths related to illicit opioids, heroin and illicitly-manufactured… read more
    … near real-time ED data on approximately two-thirds of ED visits in the US. NSSP’s data analysis and visualization … allows for tailored syndrome queries and can monitor ED visits related to heroin overdose at the local, state, … near real-time ED data on approximately two-thirds of ED visits in the US. NSSP’s data analysis and visualization …
  • MERS Syndromic Surveillance Guidance Review

    Content Type: Webinar

    Please join ISDS and CDC for an information webinar related to syndromic surveillance of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) in the US.On May 2, 2014, the first U.S. imported case of MERS was confirmed in Indiana.  Guidance was recently… read more
    … of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) in the US.On May 2, 2014, the first U.S. imported case of MERS was …  East   Respiratory  Syndrome  (MERS)  in  the  US.On  May  2,  2014,  the  first  U.S.  imported  case  of  MERS …  via  E-­‐mail   2130   Opened  Announcement   546  (26.7%)   Clicked  on  Announcement  Email   106  (19.4%)     …
  • Overcoming Operational Differences to Attain a National Picture for Novel Threats

    Content Type: Abstract

    The May arrival of two cases of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) in the US offered CDC’s BioSense SyS Program an opportunity to give CDC’s Emergency Operations Center (EOC) and state-and-local jurisdictions an enhanced national picture of… read more
    … The May arrival of two cases of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome … The May arrival of two cases of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome …