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  • Adapting a syndromic biosurveillance system to monitor veterans’ health impact associated with the gulf coast oil spill

    Content Type: Abstract

    On 20 April 2010, an explosion on an offshore drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico led to a prolonged uncontrolled release of crude oil. Both clean-up workers and coastal residents were potentially at high risk for respiratory and other… read more
    … for Early Notification of Community Based Epidemics (ESSENCE). ESSENCE captures specific patient care visit …
  • 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 … if people self-treat with OTC medications.2 METHODS In ESSENCE, ED data for the chief complaint subsyndrome of …
  • Using clinician mental models to guide annotation of medically unexplained symptoms and syndromes found in VA clinical documents

    Content Type: Abstract

    Medically unexplained syndromes (MUS) are conditions that are diagnosed on the basis of symptom constellations and are characterized by a lack of well-defined pathogenic pathways. The three most common MUS are chronic fatigue … read more
    … will support building a reference standard used for training and evaluation of a Natural Language Processing … will support building a reference standard used for training and evaluation of a Natural Language Processing … of clinician annotators. Annotated data can be used to train NLP tools for related surveillance tasks including …
  • Mass Gathering_Political Event - Maricopa County Deaprtment of Public Health

    Content Type: Syndrome

    This syndrome was developed for enhanced surveillance during a 2017 U.S. President rally in Phoenix, Arizona. Terms were included based on events at previous rallies in other cities. The query was created using chief complaint field in NSSP ESSENCE.
    … The query was created using chief complaint field in NSSP ESSENCE. RALLY OR TRUMP ANDNOT TRUMPET OR PRESIDENT OR … The query was created using chief complaint field in NSSP ESSENCE. … 1139 … Mass Gathering_Political Event - Maricopa …
  • Zika - Arizona

    Content Type: Syndrome

    This syndrome was created as a part of the Arizona Arboviral Syndrome Surveillance Project, which includes bi-weekly monitoring of syndromic data to enhance traditional surveillance. The syndrome was initially created using BioSesne 2.0 phpMyAdmin… read more
    … using BioSesne 2.0 phpMyAdmin and later transitioned to ESSENCE. (zika andnot r[ue]zika) or ziki or (zica andnot … using BioSesne 2.0 phpMyAdmin and later transitioned to ESSENCE. … 1134 … Zika - Arizona …
  • 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 - …
  • Real-time Adaptive Monitoring of Vital Signs for Clinical Alarm Preemption

    Content Type: Abstract

    Cardiovascular event prediction has long been of interest in the practice of intensive care. It has been approached using signal-processing of vital signs [1-4], including the use of graphical models [3,4]. Our approach is novel in making data… read more
    … and in real time, without requiring patient-specific training data if the patient-specific feedback signal is … and in real time, without requiring patient-specific training data if the patient-specific feedback signal is … subsampling, using data from the patients held out of the training set. The proposed approach brings the AUC metric …
  • Opioid Diagnosis Codes - Adapted from the HCUP Definition - Kansas Department of Health and Environment

    Content Type: Syndrome

    This syndrome was created as a way to integrate the H-CUP Opioid-Related Hospital Use definition into ESSENCE. H-CUP is the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project and we believe their Opioid-Related Hospital Use definition is a great starting point… read more
    … the H-CUP Opioid-Related Hospital Use definition into ESSENCE. H-CUP is the Healthcare Cost and Utilization …