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Innovative Uses for ESSENCE to Improve Standard Communicable Disease Reporting Practices in Miami-Dade County
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To illustrate how ESSENCE can been utilized to collaborate with healthcare practitioners in order to improve communicable disease reporting… surveillance and reporting. Despite notification to all providers and hospitals that varicella (chicken pox) … that healthcare practitioners report appropriately. Due to the fact that only a small percentage of chicken pox … -
Amplification of Syndromic Surveillance's Role in Miami-Dade County
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To describe how the Miami-Dade County Health Department (MDCHD) has expanded Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community Based Epidemics (ESSENCE) for specialized research in addition to daily surveillance activities… with our health care providers could be enhanced due to lack of reporting. Lastly, research on suicide and … -
Socio-Demographic and Temporal Patterns of Emergency Department Patients Who Do Not Reside in Miami-Dade County, 2007
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Visitors from areas outside Miami-Dade County have the potential to introduce diseases and/or strains of microorganisms circulating in their regions of residence. Immunocompromised and immunonaive travelers are at higher risk of… read more… as an early-warning public health tool. METHODS All ED patients who visited each of the 14 hospitals of … EDs of the 14 facilities included in ESSENCE (4 % of all ED visitors in 2007). The majority of patients, whether … -
Using ESSENCE to Track a Gastrointestinal Outbreak in a Homeless Shelter in Miami-Dade County, 2008
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Although Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community Based Epidemics (ESSENCE) provides tools to detect a significant alert regarding an unusual public health event, combining that information with … read more… discovered that on June 16, the residents that became ill did not eat food from the cafeteria but rather from food … period of time, interviews could not be conducted with all of the ill persons. CONCLUSIONS This study verified that … demonstrates how important it is to carefully monitor all clusters and not only those automatically created by the … -
Substance Abuse Among Youth in Miami-Dade County, 2005-2007
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The 2005 Youth Risk Behavior Survey of 9th to 12th graders in Miami-Dade County public schools found that 69.7% of students tried alcohol, 28.3% tried marijuana, and 6.3% tried cocaine in their lifetime. Results also showed that… read more… 2006, there were 2,323 overdose related calls to 911 for all ages; 1,480 (63.7%) of these calls involved teens aged … for females, 59% of suicide-related 911 calls were due to a drug overdose while 33% were for males. AHCA There … between 2005 and 2007 demonstrated the following: 90% of all arrests were among males, Blacks had an arrest rate …