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  • Carbon Monoxide Exposure - Kansas Department of Health and Environment

    Content Type: Syndrome

    This syndrome was created to capture Kansas ED Visits with chief complaints related to carbon monoxide poisoning/exposure or similar diagnosis codes. The terms "heater" and "generator" are included to potentially capture cases of improper heater and… read more
    … capture cases of improper heater and generator use that did not receive relevant CO poisoning terms or codes. … capture cases of improper heater and generator use that did not receive relevant CO poisoning terms or codes. …
  • Developing, Evaluating, and Disseminating Definitions for Syndromic Surveillance in Public Health Practice: A Guidance Document

    Content Type: References

    This document, released February 18, 2019, focuses on several key areas related to syndrome definition creation, including the basics behind a syndrome definition, steps to build a syndrome, evaluation of a new (or old) definition, and dissemination… read more
    … A syndrome definition is comprised of one or all of the following components: 1. Discharge diagnosis … visits and negations to limit false positives. We queried all historical chief complaints in their original form, … Consider which fields may be useful and the pros and cons of each. Being familiar with your data and knowing what …
  • Storms - Kansas Department of Health and Environment

    Content Type: Syndrome

    This is a cluster of syndromes created to populate an extreme weather myESSENCE tab. The intent was to increase repeatability of our weather surveillance and have something where a user can use the "Change Region" option to select whatever county,… read more
    … storm activity. This is still a major work-in progress. All of this as done in NSSP ESSENCE on Emergency Room data. … word or words directly related to a specific key term) All key terms are run on the Chief Complaint History, Triage … Flood X39 - Exposure to other forces of nature W00 - Fall due to ice and snow T75.0 - Struck by lightning Then we have …
  • Drowning and Submersion - CDC

    Content Type: Syndrome

    A step-wise article on developing this syndrome definition can be found in the April 2019 NSSP Update https://www.cdc.gov/nssp/news.html This syndrome is an initial attempt at an improved Drowning and Submersion query in NSSP ESSENCE. It was… read more
    … bodies of water in your region. This syndrome work also did not assess SNOMED codes. This syndrome gives interesting … bodies of water in your region. This syndrome work also did not assess SNOMED codes. This syndrome gives interesting …
  • Carbon Monoxide Exposure V2 - Kansas Department of Health and Environment

    Content Type: Syndrome

    KDHE has updated the exhisting CO Poisoning Surveillance queries. Version 1 can be found here https://www.surveillancerepository.org/carbon-monoxide-exposure-kansas-department-health-and-environment Previously, we were querying for carbon… read more
    … queries had to be run separately and then combined and de-duplicated. The COPoisoning SubSyndrome does a fairly … the Discharge Diagnosis Combo field was queried to return all SNOMED CT codes with a description related to carbon … in the above descriptions and removed the need for de-duplicating the data.   System - NSSP ESSENCE Data Source …
  • Comparing and Contrasting Two ESSENCE Syndrome Definition Query Methods

    Content Type: Abstract

    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
    … and DD History fields, combines the resulting data and de-duplicates this final data set by the C_BioSense_ID. Chief Complaint History is a list of all chief complaint values related to a singular ED visit, … Diagnosis History is the same concept, except involving all Discharge Diagnosis values. For this comparison, this …
  • Kansas Uses a Novel Approach to Assess Injuries to Agricultural Workers

    Content Type: Success Stories

    Agriculture can be a hazardous industry. Farmers, and oftentimes their family members, are at high risk for injuries, fatalities, and illness. Risks include exposure to pesticides on crop farms and use of tractors, farming equipment, and other… read more
    … ESSENCE to conduct syndromic surveillance. “In ESSENCE, all of these charts are 100% interactive,” the analyst said. … and the red dots show a highly significant P-value. All P values are calculated by one-sided tests to determine … chief complaint and discharge diagnosis fields.  Test all of your ideas in the data environment, no matter how …
  • Gunshot Injuries - Kansas Department of Health and Environment

    Content Type: Syndrome

    Responding to an ask on the ISDS forums (https://www.healthsurveillance.org/forums/posts.aspx?group=190904&topic=1452124&page=1&hhSearchTerms=#post_1452124), KDHE made a first attempt at a Gunshot Injury query for Kansas syndromic data.… read more
    … Kansas chose to add the key term "Bullet" and then did a review of gun-related injury SNOMED codes. The initial search returned around 170 SNOMED Codes. Running all of these on all historic Kansas production data only returned 39 ED … Kansas chose to add the key term "Bullet" and then did a review of gun-related injury SNOMED codes. The initial …