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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. …
  • Evaluation of Body Temperature to Classify Influenza-Like Illness (ILI) in a Syndromic Surveillance System

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    This study aims to evaluate the sensitivity, specificity and Positive Predictive Value (PPV) of body temperature measurements > 100.5 žF in relationship to laboratory confirmation of influenza and other ILI pathogens.
    … Health System (MHS) using the Clinical Data Mart (CDM). The CDM uses a Business Objects interface to perform structured … Flu Activity and Surveillance [Online]. Available: http://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/fluactivity.htm. Accessed on February …
  • ESSENCE Version 2.0: The Department of Defense's Worldwide Syndromic Surveillance System Receives Several Enhancements

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    ESSENCE receives and analyzes data for the Military Health System’s (MHS) 9 million beneficiaries resulting in approximately 90,000 daily outpatient and emergency department visits worldwide. In May 2008, MHS released … read more
    … J. Savory, M.S1., Gale E. Savage, MD, MPH1., Kenneth L. Cox, MD, MPH2 1Epidemiological Surveillance Methods and … Technological Application [Online]. Available: http://www.ha.osd.mil/ahlta/. Accessed on February 14, 2008. …
  • Geographic Categorization Methods Used in BioSense

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    BioSense is a CDC initiative to promote situational awareness through summarizing, analyzing, and presenting health related event information. Among the data sources collected and analyzed through the BioSense application are the Department of… read more
    … Walker1, MPH, John F. Quinn III4, BS, Kenneth L. Cox5, Col, USAF, MC, SFS 1BioIntelligence Center, Centers for …
  • 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