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Investigating Other Syndrome in ESSENCE from a Data Quality Perspective
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The Louisiana Office of Public Health (OPH) Infectious Disease Epidemiology Section (IDEpi) conducts syndromic surveillance of Emergency Department (ED) visits through the Louisiana Early Event Detection System (LEEDS) and submits the collected data… read more… System (LEEDS) and submits the collected data to ESSENCE. There are currently 86 syndromes defined in LEEDS … fit any syndrome definition are tagged to Null syndrome. ESSENCE uses a different algorithm from LEEDS and only looks … symptom information to bin visits to syndromes defined in ESSENCE. Visits that do not fit the defined syndromes or do …