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Identifying a Meningitis Case through Syndromic Surveillance: An Example of Detecting Events of Public Health Importance and Improving Situational Awareness
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The purpose of this paper is to describe the use of the Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE) and its ability to use hospital emergency room data for situational awareness.… ingitis, particularly bacterial meningitis, is important due to its severity and rapidity of disease progression. … Further assessment of details identified 9 visits (all residents of the same county), who received … data in order to detect events early. This specific event did reveal: • The need for standardized protocols for …