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  • Missouri Emergency Department Visits for Carbon Monoxide Poisoning

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    CO poisoning poses a significant public health burden. It is preventable, yet it remains a leading cause of poisoning in the United States. An effective surveillance system is very important for targeting and monitoring CO poisoning.Methods or… read more
    … for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE). The ED chief complaints of CO poisoning in ESSENCE contain keywords such as 'carbon' or 'monoxide'. The …
  • Impact of Patient Self-Registration in Emergency Departments on Syndromic Surveillance Data

    Content Type: Abstract

    The Florida Department of Health electronically receives hospital emergency department (ED) data from 180 EDs located in 54 of its 67 counties through its Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (… read more
    … for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE-FL). Florida EDs have begun to offer … registration smartphone applications and websites. ESSENCE-FL receives ED data from multiple hospitals that use …
  • Enhancing Biosurveillance Specificity Using PraedicoTM, A Next Generation Application

    Content Type: Abstract

    Many methods to detect outbreaks currently exist, although most are ineffective in the face of real data, resulting in high false positivity. More complicated methods have better precision, but can be difficult to interpret and justify. Praedico™ is… read more
    … syndromic surveillance alerting in VA using Praedico™ and ESSENCE. Submitted by teresa.hamby@d… on Tue, 08/29/2017 - … syndromic surveillance alerting in VA using Praedico™ and ESSENCE. … Enhancing Biosurveillance Specificity Using …
  • Early Detection of Tuberculosis Outbreaks among the San Francisco Homeless

    Content Type: Abstract

    San Francisco has the highest rate of TB in the US. Although in recent years the incidence of TB has been declining in the San Francisco general population, it has remained relatively constant in the homeless population. Spatial… read more
    … timeliness, and the amount of historical data needed for training the model. Document … and the amount of his- torical data needed for training the model. BACKGROUND San Francisco has the highest … and smaller amount of historical data is required for training the model, the detection sensitivity results are …
  • Putting Data Linkage into FIRST Gear: Lessons from Firefighter Injury Research

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    This work builds on a successful demonstration project and expands its data linkage capacity to new community partners. Presently, a national non-fatal injury reporting system does not exist for the Fire Service. In order to tell the story of all… read more
    … human resources, and continuing education/training registries. Submitted by rmathes on Thu, 12/28/2017 … human resources, and continuing education/training registries. … Putting Data Linkage into FIRST Gear: …
  • Syndromic Surveillance Evaluation of Influenza Activity in At-Risk Sub-Populations

    Content Type: Abstract

    Near real-time emergency department chief complaint data is accessed through Florida’s syndromic surveillance system: Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Communitybased Epidemics-Florida (ESSENCE-FL). The Florida Department… read more
    … Early Notification of Communitybased Epidemics-Florida (ESSENCE-FL). The Florida Department of Health relies heavily … the complete AHCA hospital discharge data to the ESSENCE-FL ILI syndrome and Influenza sub-syndrome) have …
  • Early Detection of Influenza Activity Using Syndromic Surveillance in Missouri

    Content Type: Abstract

    Syndromic surveillance is used routinely to detect outbreaks of disease earlier than traditional methods due to its ability to automatically acquire data in near real-time. Missouri has used emergency department (ED) visits to monitor and track… read more
    … via Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE) tracked weekly counts of laboratory confirmed … order to evaluate the early warning potential of ILI in ESSENCE and improve ongoing influenza surveillance efforts …
  • Utility of System Generated Syndromic Surveillance Alerts to Detect Reportable Disease Outbreaks

    Content Type: Abstract

    Reportable disease case data are entered into Merlin by all 67 county health departments in Florida and assigned confirmed, probable, or suspect case status. De-identified reportable disease data from Merlin are sent to ESSENCE-FL once an hour for… read more
    … reportable disease data from Merlin are sent to ESSENCE-FL once an hour for further analysis and … for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE-FL) to detect emergent disease outbreaks was …