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  • Keeping a Public Health Surveillance Practice up to Speed: a Training Strategy to Build Capacity

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    Public health surveillance practice is evolving rapidly. In the past decade we have witnessed the globalization of health threats, the emergence and re-emergence of infectious diseases, and an explosion of easily accessible new technologies. This… read more
    … future public health challenges. We developed a five day training course that focused on the practical use of … future public health challenges. We developed a five day training course that focused on the practical use of …
  • Analytic Fusion of ESSENCE Clinical Evidence Sources for Routine Decision Support

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    Block 3 of the US Military Electronic Surveillance System for Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE) system affords routine access to multiple sources of data. These include administrative clinical encounter records in the… read more
    … for Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE) system affords routine access to multiple sources … data sources available in the U.S. DoD version of ESSENCE. Document …
  • ESSENCE Features for 2019

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    The ESSENCE system is a community-driven disease surveillance system. Installed in over 25 jurisdictions across the US, the system is built on a single codebase that is shared across all instances. While each individual location can customize many… read more
    … The ESSENCE system is a community-driven disease surveillance … discuss the new features that are under development for ESSENCE in 2019. This is a chance to describe the features, …
  • User Generated SQL Queries Inform Evaluation of NSSP ESSENCE

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    As system users develop queries within ESSENCE, they step through the user-interface to select data sources and parameters needed for their query. Then they select from the available output options (e.g., time series, table builder, data details).… read more
    … As system users develop queries within ESSENCE, they step through the user-interface to select data …
  • Modeling the risk of heat illness among basic training populations within the DoD, 2010–2017

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    Although effective preventive measures for heat-related illness have been recommended and mandated for military personnel, there continues to be incident cases. In 2016, there were 401 incident cases of heat stroke and 2,135 incident cases of “… read more
    … of developing exertional heat illness (EHI) among basic training populations in the Department of Defense. Submitted … of developing exertional heat illness (EHI) among basic training populations in the Department of Defense. … Modeling the risk of heat illness among basic training populations within the DoD, 2010–2017 …
  • Dual Monitoring of ILI Syndrome Using the ESSENCE System

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    The threat of terrorism and high-profile disease outbreaks has drawn attention to public health syndromic surveillance systems for early detection of natural or man-made disease events. In this sense, the Miami-Dade County Health… read more
    … Miami-Dade County Health Department has implemented ESSENCE (Electronic Surveillance System for the Early … Illness (ILI) syndrome in Miami-Dade County using the ESSENCE syndromic surveillance system, and their potential …
  • Integrating R into ESSENCE to Enable Custom Data Analysis and Visualization

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    The use of R is increasing in the public health disease surveillance community. The ISDS pre-conference workshops and newly formed R Group for Surveillance have been well attended and continue to grow in popularity. The use of R in the National… read more
    … This interest in R, combined with a desire from many ESSENCE users to create custom analytics and visualizations, … into the feasibility and ways R could be integrated into ESSENCE. Objective The objective of this project is to give …
  • Sensitivity and Specificity of the Fever Syndromes in BioSense and ESSENCE

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    Syndromic surveillance refers to the monitoring of disease related events, sets of clinical features (i.e. syndromes), or other indicators in a population. Tennessee obtains emergency department data for syndromic surveillance in standardized HL7… read more
    … Data are received daily and processed by a Tennessee ESSENCE application and the national BioSense platform. … performance of the fever syndromes used by BioSense and ESSENCE, recorded temperature data was used as the gold …