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  • Frostbite, Cold Exposure, & Hypothermia** - Kansas Department of Health and Environment

    Content Type: Syndrome

    This syndrome was created as a way to monitor Frostbite, Cold Exposure, & Hypothermia in Kansas Emergency Department visits. **Please note that the hypothermia portion of this syndrome was created to ONLY include hypothermia associated with low… read more
    … temperature. Syndromic Surveillance System - NSSP ESSENCE Data sources - Emergency Room Visits Fields Used - CCDD (an ESSENCE-concatenated field of Chief Complaint and Discharge …
  • Acute Flaccid Myelitis Diagnosis Codes - Kansas Department of Health and Environment

    Content Type: Syndrome

    This syndrome was created to query ESSENCE for KS ED visits potentially associated with Acute Flaccid Myelitis (AFM). Diagnosis codes were provided to KDHE by a CDC AFM contact and originally included approximately 100 codes that could encompass… read more
    … This syndrome was created to query ESSENCE for KS ED visits potentially associated with Acute … reflect AFM. Syndromic Surveillance System - NSSP ESSENCE Data Source - Emergency Room Visits Fields Used - …
  • Opioid Surveillance Webinar Series #1: Rapid surveillance of overdose morbidity - Developing case definitions, building queries, and analyzing results

    Content Type: Webinar

    This is the first installment of the ISDS Opioid Surveillance Webinar Series, June - July, 2017. Click here for Part 2 of… read more
    … drug, opioid, and heroin within and outside of the NSSP/ESSENCE system. The presenters also share lessons learned … and bold) CategoryCategoryCategoryCategory Query terms (ESSENCE Syntax)Query terms (ESSENCE Syntax)Query terms …
  • Carbon Monoxide Exposure - Kansas Department of Health and Environment

    Content Type: Syndrome

    This syndrome was created to capture Kansas ED Visits with chief complaints related to carbon monoxide poisoning/exposure or similar diagnosis codes. The terms "heater" and "generator" are included to potentially capture cases of improper heater and… read more
    … poisoning terms or codes. Syndromic Surveillance System - ESSENCE Data Source - Emergency Room Visits Fields Used - CCDD (an ESSENCE-concatenated field of Chief Complaint and Discharge …
  • Can Syndromic Surveillance Data be Useful for Monitoring Respiratory Illness Activity?

    Content Type: Abstract

    A significant amount of resources and effort have been recently invested in syndromic surveillance systems. However, how these systems complement or compare with traditional public health surveillance systems, such as outbreak reporting, is not… read more
    … for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE) syndromic surveillance system to monitor … for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE) syndromic surveillance system to monitor …
  • Early Detection of Tuberculosis Outbreaks among the San Francisco Homeless

    Content Type: Abstract

    San Francisco has the highest rate of TB in the US. Although in recent years the incidence of TB has been declining in the San Francisco general population, it has remained relatively constant in the homeless population. Spatial… read more
    … timeliness, and the amount of historical data needed for training the model. Document … and the amount of his- torical data needed for training the model. BACKGROUND San Francisco has the highest … and smaller amount of historical data is required for training the model, the detection sensitivity results are …
  • Promoting and supporting wildlife surveillance for zoonotic pathogens in Rwanda

    Content Type: Case Study

    Rwanda government's leadership in embracing One health approach to mitigate and control infectious diseases can be a huge lesson to other developing countries to do the same with astounding results. Rwanda is a potential country for emerging… read more
    … for response in wildlife diseases outbreak in terms of training of relevant staff, both in domestic animals and … which is a huge task considering the staff educational training- understanding the One Health Concept - Continuous …
  • Developing, Evaluating, and Disseminating Definitions for Syndromic Surveillance in Public Health Practice: A Guidance Document

    Content Type: References

    This document, released February 18, 2019, focuses on several key areas related to syndrome definition creation, including the basics behind a syndrome definition, steps to build a syndrome, evaluation of a new (or old) definition, and dissemination… read more
    … Syndromic Surveillance Program (NSSP) BioSense Platform, ESSENCE (Electronic Surveillance System for the Early … as well as national level data available in NSSP ESSENCE. When using other data sources with this definition, …