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  • Catchment Area of Miami Children's Hospital Emergency Room - Implications for Syndromic Surveillance in Miami-Dade County

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    This research aims to determine the catchment area of Miami Children's Hospital Emergency Department (ED). The purpose is to identify pediatric populations and territories within Miami-Dade County that are insufficiently covered by this hospital's… read more
    … for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE) to conduct syndromic surveillance [1]. Patients’ … these areas visit other EDs currently feeding data into ESSENCE. Was the answer negative, they should be prioritized …
  • Spatio-Temporal Visualizations as Interface: Constructing Geographic Animations of Disease Surveillance Data in a Syndromic Surveillance System

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    As the Georgia Division of Public Health began constructing a systems interface for its syndromic surveillance program, the nature and intended use of these data inspired new approaches to interface design. With the temporal and spatial components… read more
    … awareness system. MMWR 2005;54(suppl):11-19. [4] DoD, ESSENCE: Electronic surveillance system for the early …
  • Syndrome evaluation of individuals reporting emergency department utilization for notifiable disease and conditions

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    The Duval County Health Department (DCHD) serves a community of over one million people in Jacksonville, FL, USA. Each year, DCHD Epidemiology Program reports an average of 1133 (4-year average) notifiable diseases and conditions (NDC)… read more
    … for Early Notification of Community- based Epidemics (ESSENCE) of Florida. Historically, evaluations of SS systems … were able to be matched to the corresponding ED visits in ESSENCE. In addition, 13 cases reported two ED visits and 1 …
  • Exercise Demonstrates Effective Syndromic Surveillance Response Process

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    Currently, Indiana monitors emergency department patient chief complaint data from 73 geographically dispersed hospitals. These data are analyzed using the Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-… read more
    … for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE) application. While researchers continue to improve … a highly functional analytic data user interface such as ESSENCE, and 2) an intimate familiarity with local daily ED …
  • Socio-Demographic and Temporal Patterns of Emergency Department Patients Who Do Not Reside in Miami-Dade County, 2007

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    Visitors from areas outside Miami-Dade County have the potential to introduce diseases and/or strains of microorganisms circulating in their regions of residence. Immunocompromised and immunonaive travelers are at higher risk of… read more
    … the 14 hospitals of Miami-Dade County that fed data into ESSENCE during 2007 were included in the analysis. The … just four of the fourteen hospitals that feed data into ESSENCE, as they account for two thirds of these visitors. …
  • Increase in Pneumonia Cases as an Early Indicator of Severe and Pandemic Influenza Outbreak

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    Objective To enable the early detection of pandemic influenza, we have designed a system to differentiate between severe and mild influenza outbreaks. Historic information about previous pandemics suggested the evaluation of two… read more
    … expected influenza season. Methods Data are collected by ESSENCE (Electronic Surveillance System for the Early … for the Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE II), J Urban Health, Vol. 80(2 Suppl 1):i32–42. …
  • Utilization of Public Health Surveillance Data for Early Detection and Mitigation of Drinking Water Contamination

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    Safe drinking water is essential for all communities. Intentional or unintentional contamination of drinking water requires water utilities and local public health to act quickly. The Water Security (WS) initiative of the U.S.… read more
    … and syndromic surveillance systems, such as RODS and ESSENCE, are the public health surveillance data streams …
  • What is the Value of a Positive Syndromic Surveillance Signal?

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    One criterion for evaluating the effectiveness of a surveillance system is the system’s positive predictive value. To our knowledge few studies have described the positive predictive value of syndromic surveillance signals… read more
    … for the Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE).3 Investigations are initiated for alarm signals …