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  • Comparing and Contrasting Two ESSENCE Syndrome Definition Query Methods

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    The Kansas Syndromic Surveillance Program (KSSP) utilizes the ESSENCE v.1.20 program provided by the National Syndromic Surveillance Program to view and analyze Kansas Emergency Department (ED) data. Methods that allow an ESSENCE user to query both… read more
    … both the Discharge Diagnosis (DD) and Chief Complaint (CC) fields simultaneously allow for more specific and … in this way. The first is a query of the field named “CC and DD.” The CC and DD field contains a concatenation … consists of the last non-null value for that patient visit ID and the chief complaint parsed is the first …
  • Forming Collaborations through the Data Quality Committee to Address Urgent Incidents

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    On November 20, 2017, several sites participating in the NSSP reported anomalies in their syndromic data. Upon review, it was found that between November 17-18, an EHR vendor’s syndromic product experienced an outage and errors in processing… read more
    … On November 20, 2017, several sites participating in the NSSP reported anomalies in their … DQC, NSSP, a large EHR vendor, and many of the affected sites worked together to identify the core issues, evaluate … Data Quality Committee (DQC) between jurisdictional sites conducting syndromic surveillance, the Centers for …
  • Enhancing Surveillance on the BioSense Platform through Improved Onboarding Processes

    Content Type: Abstract

    In 2017, the National Syndromic Surveillance Program (NSSP) continued to expand as a national scope data source with over 6,500 facilities registered on the BioSense Platform, including 4,000 active, 1,800 onboarding, and 700 planned or inactive… read more
    … the active facilities are Emergency Departments across 49 sites in 41 states. The growth of data available in NSSP has … new healthcare facilities and onboard new public health sites in support of American Hospital Association (AHA) … the active facilities are Emergency Departments across 49 sites in 41 states. The growth of data available in NSSP has …