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  • Trends in Emergency Department Visits for Influenza-like Illness and Antiviral Medication Transactions

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    The electronic surveillance system for the early notification of community-based epidemics (ESSENCE) is the web-based syndromic surveillance system utilized by the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DHMH). ESSENCE utilizes a secure,… read more
    … for the early notification of community-based epidemics (ESSENCE) is the web-based syndromic surveillance system … Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DHMH). ESSENCE utilizes a secure, automated process for the …
  • Comparison of Influenza-like Illness Syndrome Classification Between Two Syndromic Surveillance Systems

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    In 2004, the BioDefend (BD) syndromic surveillance (SS) system was implemented in Duval County hospitals (Jacksonville, FL). Daily emergency department chief complaints are manually classified and entered into the BD system by… read more
    … for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE) began collecting data in the Jacksonville area …
  • Evaluation within the Users of a Syndromic Surveillance System in French Guiana

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    The syndromic surveillance system “2SE FAG” has been installed within the French Armed Forces in French Guiana (3000 people) in October 2004 [1-2]. During the conception and the deployment of such a system, ergonomic issues were highlighted and… read more
    … of such a system, ergonomic issues were highlighted and training of stakeholders as well [3]. Daily exchanges with … of such a system, ergonomic issues were highlighted and train- ing of stakeholders as well [3]. Daily exchanges with … was useful or very useful for 67% of the people. The training was done in a normal way only for 57% of the …
  • Streamling Syndromic Surveillance Submission on a Dime: Oregon’s Experience

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    In 2012, the Oregon Public Health Division (OPHD) took advantage of the opportunity created by Meaningful Use, a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Incentive Program, to implement statewide syndromic surveillance. The Oregon… read more
    … The Oregon syndromic surveillance project, or Oregon ESSENCE, began accepting MUcompliant HL7 2.5.1 data in late …
  • Improvement in Performance of Ngram Classifiers with Frequent Updates

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      Syndromic surveillance of emergency department(ED) visit data is often based on computerized classifiers which assign patient chief complaints (CC) tosyndromes. These classifiers may need to be updatedperiodically to account for changes… read more
    … creates a CC classifier automatically based on a training set of patient visits for which both the CC and … We used a lower GI grouping of ICD9 codes created by the ESSENCE-CDC pro- ject. We then used an N-Gram method adapted …
  • Free-Text Mining to Improve Syndrome Definition Matching Across Emergency Departments

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    Standard syndrome definitions for ED visits in ESSENCE rely on chief complaints. Visits with more words in the chief complaint field are more likely to match syndrome definitions. While using ESSENCE, we observed geographic differences in chief… read more
    … Standard syndrome definitions for ED visits in ESSENCE rely on chief complaints. Visits with more words in … more likely to match syndrome definitions. While using ESSENCE, we observed geographic differences in chief …
  • Amplification of Syndromic Surveillance's Role in Miami-Dade County

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    To describe how the Miami-Dade County Health Department (MDCHD) has expanded Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community Based Epidemics (ESSENCE) for specialized research in addition to daily surveillance activities
    … for the Early Notification of Community Based Epidemics (ESSENCE) for specialized research in addition to daily … Syndromic surveillance in Miami-Dade County consists of ESSENCE, Public School Absenteeism, 911 call center data as …
  • A Novel Zoonotic Disease Outbreak Course to improve Surveillance and Response for the USDA

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    Outbreak Investigations course consisted to a series of 8 online modules, covering: •Confirm that an outbreak is occurring and confirm diagnosis •Case definition •Descriptive Epidemiology •Hypothesis Generation •Analytic Epidemiology •Preliminary… read more
    … Veterinary Services (VS) division. The objective of this training was to provide a standard framework to investigate … solutions. VS has expertise in animal surveillance, this training course demonstrated how to incorporate the … Veterinary Services (VS) division. The objective of this training was to provide a standard framework to investigate …