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Emergency Department Patients with Gastrointestinal Symptoms During Federal Holidays, Miami-Dade 2007-2010
Content Type: Abstract
People usually celebrate holidays by inviting family and friends to have food at home, or by gathering and eating at restaurants or in other public venues. This increased exposure to food with a common source can create conditions for outbreaks of… read more… the seasonal effect in this research. Conclusions ESSENCE can help to track the incidence of gastrointestinal … -
Syndromic Surveillance of Non-traumatic Dental Conditions in Idaho Core Areas
Content Type: Success Stories
Access to dental care is a public health problem in Idaho because most of the state is experiencing a shortage of dental health professionals. The Idaho Oral Health program has anecdotal evidence that some Idahoans compensate for this shortage by… read more… activity began in spring 2017 with the development of an ESSENCE* query to identify non-traumatic dental care visits. … activity began in spring 2017 with the development of an ESSENCE* query to identify non-traumatic dental care visits. … -
Extreme Weather Surveillance
Content Type: Use Case
Problem Summary Given the background of climate change, there is an increasing demand for public health to characterize weather-related illness. The public health impact of extreme heat or cold events can be characterized from Emergency… read more… syndromic surveillance data could come from Cook County’s ESSENCE system, which is well established and may be more … -
Implementation and Comparison of Preprocessing Methods for Biosurveillance Data
Content Type: Abstract
Modern biosurveillance relies on multiple sources of both prediagnostic and diagnostic data, updated daily, to discover disease outbreaks. Intrinsic to this effort are two assumptions: (1) the data being analyzed contain early indicators… read more… Aberration Reporting System; ED, emergency department; ESSENCE, Electronic Surveillance Systems for the Early … for the Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE) (7). The classic Shewhart chart for monitoring the … at emergency departments The second dataset, from ESSENCE, is composed of 35 time series representing daily … -
CDC All Drug v1
Content Type: Syndrome
THE KNOWLEDGE REPOSITORY HAS BEEN UPDATED TO INCLUDE CDC ALL DRUG V2 - THE UPDATED SYNDROME DEFINITION CAN BE FOUND HERE. Purpose:… read more… Exclusions Chief complaint Exclude See list below in ESSENCE code Table 2. ESSENCE query for suspected all drug overdose (,^[;/ … -
Using R Shiny to Share Surveillance Data
Content Type: Webinar
Presented November 21, 2017. This presentation covers how the shiny package can complement traditional surveillance reporting through online, interactive applications. Kelley demonstrates a shiny application Cook County is currently… read more… with flu Cook County Department of Public Health Local ESSENCE instance 5 Traditional Reporting Data stored in … -
Technical Challenges from the Public Health Practice Community to Statisticians and Analysts
Content Type: Webinar
On May 28th, 2009, the ISDS Research and Public Health Practice Committees hosted a joint panel with the goal of bringing current challenges faced by public health practitioners to the attention of the research community at large. Members of both… read more… Regional Implementations n Miami-Dade County Region (ESSENCE) n Hillsborough County Region (STARS) n Duval … workgroup n Invested resources in 2006 n Implemented ESSENCE in summer of 2007 n As of 5/2009: 109 hospitals … -
Syndromic Surveillance Using Electronic Health Record Clinical Data from Hospital and Ambulatory Settings: An Annotated Bibliography
Content Type: References
This annotated bibliography summarizes close to 50 articles on syndromic surveillance using EHR data from hospital and ambulatory settings. The bibliography is a valuable resource for both practitioners and researchers as they continue to assess the… read more… • Data source: Inpatient data from Veterans Affairs ESSENCE system (all VA acute care hospitals) • Objectives of project: To determine how VA ESSENCE inpatient data can be utilized for biosurveillance • … Summary: • Data source: Department of Defense ESSENCE medical information systems, pulling records from …