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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… for Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE) system affords routine access to multiple sources … Other CAPER data fields are related to case severity. DoD ESSENCE treats the multiple, recently available data sources … data sources available in the U.S. DoD version of ESSENCE. Document … -
A collaboration to enhance detection of disease outbreaks clustered by time of patient arrival
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One objective of public health surveillance is detecting disease outbreaks by looking for changes in the disease occurrence, so that control measures can be implemented and the spread of disease minimized. For this purpose, the… read more… for Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE). The current problem was spawned by a … outbreaks were detected by epidemiologists inspecting ESSENCE time series and derived event lists. The … for Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE). The current problem was spawned by a labor- … -
Validation of Analytic Methods for Combining Evidence Sources in Biosurveillance
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Recent years' informatics advances have increased availability of various sources of health-monitoring information to agencies responsible for disease surveillance. These sources differ in clinical relevance and reliability, and range from… read more… for the Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE). In 2012 this module was expanded with syndromic … efforts have produced a full fusion-enabled version of ESSENCE for beta testing, further upgrades, and a software … BN, and implement a validation strategy aimed at both the ESSENCE public health user and machine learning communities. … -
Refinement of a Population-Based Bayesian Network for Fusion of Health Surveillance Data
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The ESSENCE demonstration module was built to help DoD health monitors make routine decisions based on disparate evidence sources such as daily counts of ILI-related chief complaints, ratios of positive lab tests for influenza, patient age… read more… The ESSENCE demonstration module was built to help DoD health … Surveillance System for Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE). Submitted by uysz on Thu, 07/05/2018 - 09:44 … The ESSENCE demonstration module was built to help DoD health … Surveillance System for Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE). … -
Utility of Data Fusion for Public Health Monitors: Lessons Learned from a Beta Test
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The Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center (AFHSC) supports the development of new analytical tools to improve alerting in the Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE) disease-monitoring… read more… for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE) disease-monitoring application used by the … for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE) disease-monitoring application used by the …