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Tuning a Chief Complaint Text Parser for Use in DoD ESSENCE
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An expanded ambulatory health record, the Comprehensive Ambulatory Patient Encounter Record (CAPER) will provide multiple types of data for use in DoD ESSENCE. A new type of data not previously available is the Reason for Visit (ROV), a free-text… read more… (CC). Intake personnel ask patients why they have come to the clinic and record their responses. … the covered population. For example, consider the Shock/Coma syndrome. Loss of consciousness is relatively common in … to the CC. Intake personnel ask patients why they have come to the clinic and record their responses. … -
Utility of Syndromic Surveillance for Investigating Morbidity Resulting from a Severe Weather Event
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On 12/14/06, a windstorm in western Washington caused 4 million residents to lose power; within 24 hours, a surge in patients presented to emergency departments (EDs) with carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning. As previously described, records of… read more… to emergency departments (EDs) with carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning. As previously described, records of all patients presenting to King County EDs with CO poisoning between 12/15/06 to 12/24/06 (n=279) were … attempted to identify each of the 249 confirmed cases of CO poisoning in our syndromic ED data set by comparing the … -
Development and Evaluation of a Data-adaptive Algorithm for Univariate Temporal Biosurveillance Data
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Numerous recent papers have evaluated algorithms for biosurveillance anomaly detection. Common essential problems in the disparate, evolving data environment include trends, day-of-week effects, and other systematic behavior.… read more… 2007, Statistics in Medicine, available at http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi- bin/fulltext/114131913/PDFSTART. 2. Brillman JC, … -
Analytic Fusion of ESSENCE Clinical Evidence Sources for Routine Decision Support
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Block 3 of the US Military Electronic Surveillance System for Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE) system affords routine access to multiple sources of data. These include administrative clinical encounter records in the… read more -
Hierarchical Filtering of ESSENCE for Routine, Distributed Disease Monitoring by the Veterans Health Administration
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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… doi:10.1371/journal. pone.0009533. 2. Burkom H, Elbert Y, Cox K, Lombardo J. Upgrading the ESSENCE health monitoring …