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Language Barriers - CDC
Content Type: Syndrome
This syndrome is a work-in-progress and was created to experiment with Chief Complaint text indicating a language barrier between medical professionals and patient and/or an interpreter is needed to provide medical care. This was… read more -
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 -
Tick Related Encounters - Connecticut Department of Public Health, April 2019
Content Type: Syndrome
- Why the syndrome was created? This syndrome was created to monitor tick related emergency room visits using regular expressions in R.
- Syndromic surveillance system (e.g., ESSENCE, R STUDIO,…
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Lyme Disease Related Encounters - Connecticut Department of Public Health, April 2019
Content Type: Syndrome
- Why the syndrome was created? This syndrome was created to monitor Lyme disease related emergency room visits using regular expressions in R.
- Syndromic surveillance system (e.g., ESSENCE, R…
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Evaluating Notifiable Disease Reporting by Providers: Analysis of Data Element Completeness
Content Type: Abstract
Completeness of public health information is essential for the accurate assessment of community health progress and disease surveillance. Yet challenges persist with respect to the level of completeness that public health agencies receive in reports… read more -
Evaluating the Ability of a Syndromic Surveillance System to Detect Heat-Related Illnesses in Houston, TX, 2009-2012
Content Type: Abstract
Extreme heat events over the past 30 years have resulted in unprecedented increase in the numbers of heat-related morbidity and mortality across the world (1-3). During the same time frame, Houston residents has experienced three of the hottest… read more -
Evaluating the Performance of Syndromic Surveillance System using High-fidelity Outbreak Simulations
Content Type: Abstract
The evaluation of outbreak detection performance remained a major challenge to every syndromic surveillance system. Owing to the scarcity and uncertainty of infectious disease outbreaks in the real world, simulated outbreak datasets have been… read more -
Evaluation of Chlamydia Case Report Data: Completeness of Key Variables - United States, 2012
Content Type: Abstract
Chlamydia, a sexually transmitted infection which can lead to adverse reproductive health outcomes if untreated, is the most commonly reported nationally notifable disease in the United States.[1] Complete and valid demographic, geographic, and… read more