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Adapting a syndromic biosurveillance system to monitor veterans’ health impact associated with the gulf coast oil spill
Content Type: Abstract
On 20 April 2010, an explosion on an offshore drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico led to a prolonged uncontrolled release of crude oil. Both clean-up workers and coastal residents were potentially at high risk for respiratory and other… read more… Epidemics (ESSENCE). ESSENCE captures specific patient care visit ICD-nine codes belonging to selected conditions … 153 medical centers and over 1000 free standing patient care facilities across the United States. We describe the … Epidemics (ESSENCE).1 ESSENCE captures specific patient care visit ICD-nine codes belonging to selected conditions … -
Discovering the New Frontier of Syndromic Surveillance (Pt 2): A Meaningful Use Dialogue on the Department of Veterans Affairs Implementation
Content Type: Webinar
This webinar is part of the Meaningful Use Webinar Series entitled "Discovering the New Frontier of Syndromic Surveillance: A Meaningful Use Dialogue" Dr. Cynthia Lucero continues our Meaningful Use webinar series with an introduction to… read more… Health Administration (VHA) Nation’s largest health care system, largest provider of graduate medical education … 6 million uniques treated; over 75 million outpatient visits; ~680,000 inpatient admissions, 260 million lab tests … -
Another Type of Cluster Monitoring: Detection of Groups of Anomalous Patient Residence Locations
Content Type: Abstract
The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) uses the Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics to detect disease outbreaks and other health-related events earlier than other forms of surveillance. Although… read more… in the world, the strongest predictor of which health care facility is accessed is geographic proximity to the … of patient residential ZIP codes outside a health care facility catchment area. Document … out-of-town) sought healthcare at the VA Maryland Health Care System*Baltimore Medical Center. Using ESSENCE, daily … -
Surveillance for nationally notifiable infectious conditions using ICD-9-CM diagnosis codes in the VA ESSENCE biosurveillance system
Content Type: Abstract
The Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE) obtains electronic data from 153 Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Centers plus outpatient clinics in all 50 states, American Samoa, Guam,… read more… graphic data from outpatient and emergency department visits at all VA facilities.1 For this review, visits with an ICD-9-CM code(s) for a reportable … salmonellosis) had PPVs greater than 50%. Reasons that visits did not meet CDC case definitions included: (1) … -
Hierarchical Filtering of ESSENCE for Routine, Distributed Disease Monitoring by the Veterans Health Administration
Content Type: Abstract
The VA has employed ESSENCE for health monitoring since 2006 [1]. Epidemiologists at the Office of Public Health (OPH) monitor the VA population at the national level. The system is also intended for facility-level monitoring to cover 152 medical… read more… Laurel, MD, USA; 2Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, CA, USA; 3University of Oklahoma …