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  • Improvement of Epidemiology Business Processes through the Evolution of Biosurveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    In the last decade, the scope of public health (PH) surveillance has grown, and biosurveillance capacity has expanded in Duval County. In 2004, the Duval County Health Department (DCHD) implemented a standalone syndromic surveillance (SS) system… read more
    … DOH moved to a statewide SS system and implemented ESSENCE which has been expanded to include 1) ED record data … 4) Florida Office of Vital Statistics death records (1). ESSENCE has subsequently become a platform for rapid data … across several data sources (1). As a result, ESSENCE has improved business processes within DCHD well …
  • Rabies Exposure and PEP - Kansas Department of Health and Environment

    Content Type: Syndrome

    This syndrome was created to query NSSP ESSENCE on Rabies Exposure and Rabies PEP S Syndromic Surveillance System - NSSP ESSENCE Data source - Emergency Room Visits Fields used - Chief Complaint History and Discharge Diagnosis History OR… read more
    … This syndrome was created to query NSSP ESSENCE on Rabies Exposure and Rabies PEP S Syndromic Surveillance System - NSSP ESSENCE Data source - Emergency Room Visits Fields used - … History and Discharge Diagnosis History OR CCDD (an ESSENCE-concatenated field of Chief Complaint and Discharge …
  • Amplification of Syndromic Surveillance's Role in Miami-Dade County

    Content Type: Abstract

    To describe how the Miami-Dade County Health Department (MDCHD) has expanded Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community Based Epidemics (ESSENCE) for specialized research in addition to daily surveillance activities
    … for the Early Notification of Community Based Epidemics (ESSENCE) for specialized research in addition to daily … for the Early Notification of Community Based Epidemics (ESSENCE) for specialized research in addition to daily … public health surveillance methods. MDCHD has been using ESSENCE as part of its comprehensive syndromic surveillance …
  • Diagnosis Coding Anomalies Resulting in Hemorrhagic Illness Alerts in Veterans Health Administration Outpatient Clinics

    Content Type: Abstract

    The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) operates over 880 outpatient clinics across the nation. The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory’s Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE) utilizes… read more
    … for the Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE) utilizes VHA ICD9 coded outpatient visit data for … The hemorrhagic illness (HI) syndrome category in ESSENCE is comprised of 25 different ICD9 codes, including … Group1, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, ESSENCE Group2 OBJECTIVE We sought to evaluate the …
  • Emergency Department Visits for Influenza-Like Illness and Over the Counter Sales of Flu Remedies in the National Capitol Region, 2003-2007

    Content Type: Abstract

    The Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene conducts enhanced surveillance using the Electronic Surveillance System for Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE). The current version of ESSENCE for the… read more
    … for Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE). The current version of ESSENCE for the National Capital Region consists of … when observed counts are outside the expected range. ESSENCE alerts users to unusual counts of a particular … for Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE). The current version of ESSENCE for the National …
  • Firework Injuries - Kansas Department of Health and Environment

    Content Type: Syndrome

    This syndrome was created to query NSSP ESSENCE for KS ED visits related to fireworks, particularly around the United States Independence Day holiday. Legality and slang for firework injuries will vary by region and some terms in this query are… read more
    … This syndrome was created to query NSSP ESSENCE for KS ED visits related to fireworks, particularly … region-specific. Syndromic Surveillance System - NSSP ESSENCE Data Source - Emergency Room Visits Fields Used - … History, Discharge Diagnosis History OR CCDD (an ESSENCE-concatenated field of Chief Complaint and Discharge …
  • Identifying a Meningitis Case through Syndromic Surveillance: An Example of Detecting Events of Public Health Importance and Improving Situational Awareness

    Content Type: Abstract

    The purpose of this paper is to describe the use of the Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE) and its ability to use hospital emergency room data for situational awareness.
    … for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE) and its ability to use hospital emergency room data … the Early Notifi- cation of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE) and its ability to use hospital emergency room data … clustering. RESULTS On a weekend day in March 2006, ESSENCE identi- fied a neurological syndrome anomaly for the …
  • Operational Considerations and Early Successes with a Statewide Public Health Surveillance System

    Content Type: Abstract

    In 2004, the Indiana State Department of Health (ISDH) partnered with the Regenstrief Institute to begin collecting syndromic data from 14 ED’s to monitor bioterrorism-related events and other public health emergencies. Today, Indiana’s public… read more
    … from 55 hospitals. The ISDH analyzes these data using ESSENCE and initiates field investigations when human review … is the first local health department in Indiana using ESSENCE.   Objective This paper describes how local and … from 55 hospitals. The ISDH analyzes these data using ESSENCE and initiates field investigations when human review …