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Disease Profile Development Methodology for Syndromic Surveillance of Biological Threat Agents
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Detection of biological threat agents (BTAs) is critical to the rapid initiation of treatment, infection control measures, and public health emergency response plans. Due to the rarity of BTAs, standard methodology for developing syndrome… read more… BioSense Program, Tarrant County Public Health and the ESSENCE Team at the Johns Hopkins University APL. The … can be proliferated among health departments that use ESSENCE by investigating the potential use of cloud … the project will then investigate methods for putting the ESSENCE system in a cloud environment as well. This will … -
Using Online Applications with R to Share Surveillance Data
Content Type: Success Stories
Since 2009, the Cook County Department of Public Health (CCDPH) has created and disseminated weekly surveillance reports to share seasonal influenza data with the community and our healthcare partners. Surveillance data is formatted into tables and… read more… 1. Data extracted from syndromic surveillance system, ESSENCE; 45 hospital emergency departments (EDs) participate in ESSENCE. Influenza-like-illness (ILI) defined as a symptom … -
Comparison of 2005-2007 Influenza-Like Illness Observed from Emergency Department Visits in Miami-Dade County
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The purpose of this study was to compare the 2005- 2006 and 2006-2007 Influenza seasons using Influenza-like illness (ILI) data received from Emergency Departments in Miami-Dade County.… MDCHD has implemented a syndromic surveillance system (ESSENCE) to monitor ILI trends from data received from … -
Talking Turkish: Using N-Grams for Syndromic Surveillance in a Turkish Emergency Department without the Need for English Translation
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Previously we used an “N-Gram” classifier for syndromic surveillance of emergency department (ED) chief complaints (CC) in English for bioterrorism. The classifier is trained on a set of ED visits for which both the ICD diagnosis code and CC are… read more… respiratory grouping of ICD9 codes created by the ESSENCE-CDC project. We then used an N- Gram method adapted … -
Enabling User-Driven Public Health Analyses through Automated Data Querying
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Public health officials are now receiving more data than ever in electronic formats, and also stand to benefit more than ever from ongoing advances in the medical and epidemiological sciences. At the same time, this growing … read more… for the Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE II).” Journal of Urban Health, Volume 80(2)S1: … -
Enhancing Syndromic Surveillance through Cross-border Data Sharing
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In the fall of 2006, the Ohio Department of Health (ODH) and the Indiana State Department of Health (ISDH) proactively began general discussions regarding surveillance issues of mutual interest. Both states, having operational… read more… for the Early Notification of Community- based Epidemics (ESSENCE). Each state desired to view the new shared data … -
Evaluation of Body Temperature to Classify Influenza-Like Illness (ILI) in a Syndromic Surveillance System
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This study aims to evaluate the sensitivity, specificity and Positive Predictive Value (PPV) of body temperature measurements > 100.5 F in relationship to laboratory confirmation of influenza and other ILI pathogens.… For each of ten codes used to profile the ILI syndrome in ESSENCE (the Department of Defense’s syndromic surveillance … -
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… We used a lower GI grouping of ICD9 codes created by the ESSENCE-CDC pro- ject. We then used an N-Gram method adapted …