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  • Using Syndromic Data to Examine Flooding

    Content Type: Success Stories

    Wisconsin experienced severe flooding from August 17 to September 20, 2018. This flood caused an estimated $232 million in damage and affected 21 counties. Floods can have negative health impacts on a population, such as increased skin infections,… read more
    … used the Early Notification of Community based Epidemics (ESSENCE), a tool within BioSense, to track flood-related … data to apply for the Crisis Counseling Assistance and Training Program (CCP) grant with the Substance Abuse and …
  • Surveillance of Heat-Related Illness Among Pinal County Residents in Arizona

    Content Type: Success Stories

    Extreme heat events caused by high environmental temperatures are considered a major cause of weather-related deaths and injury in the United States. These events can result in a spectrum of conditions known as heat-related illnesses (HRIs), which… read more
    … using a combination of hospital discharge data (HDD), the ESSENCE syndromic surveillance tool within the BioSense … incidents among Pinal County residents. Data from HDD, ESSENCE, and the interviews analyzed in 2017 helped support … information obtained from hospital discharge data and ESSENCE. Combining hospital discharge data, syndromic …
  • Disease Profile Development Methodology for Syndromic Surveillance of Biological Threat Agents

    Content Type: Abstract

    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
    … a common informatics lexicon and workforce engagement and training are critical to public health, especially for … 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 …
  • 2018 NSSP CoP Member Satisfaction Assessment Results

    Content Type: Report

    The intent of the National Syndromic Surveillance Program Community of Practice (NSSP CoP) is to support open and dynamic participation of any… read more
    … and I greatly appreciate the tools, networking, and training opportunities it provides.” Recommendations ISDS … multiple options. • Infectious Disease (n=6) • BioSense/ESSENCE (n=6) • Data Reporting (n=6) • Injury Prevention …
  • Facilitating Cross-Sectoral Collaboration Through One Health Country-Level Work Groups

    Content Type: Case Study

    Zoonotic diseases compose a large proportion of the disease burden faced by African countries (e.g. Ebola). A One Health approach to disease control has been embraced across the continent, yet public health and veterinary surveillance systems in… read more
    … __x_ Cross-Agency Communication and Collaboration _x__ Training and Resources __x_ Technologies and Methodologies … Facilitated discussions were held at the end of each training, which resulted in CLWG members discussing … to public health practitioners lacking informatics training. The story-telling approach used in training …
  • The Performance of a NGram Classifier for Patients' Chief Complaint Based on a Computerized Pick List Entry and Free Text in an Italian Emergency Department

    Content Type: Abstract

    Syndromic surveillance of emergency department (ED) visit data is often based on computer algorithms which assign patient chief complaints (CC) and ICD code data to syndromes. The triage nurse note (NN) has also been used for… read more
    … the 23 CC pick list categories. We used the 2005 data for training the classifiers and the 2006 data for testing the classifiers. We used an existing ESSENCE classifier for RESP as the criterion standard for …
  • NSSP’s Master Facility Table (MFT) Module Overview

    Content Type: Webinar

    Presented July 25, 2018. The NSSP team is excited to share our progress towards adding the Master Facility Table (MFT) as a module to the BioSense Platform’s Access and Management Center, or AMC. The addition of the MFT module gives you, as a… read more
    … and any associated facilities as a single entity, which ESSENCE can then display in a time-series graph.  Each … (Same C_Biosense_Facility_ID in ARCHIVE, same hospital in ESSENCE) – Discern and identify “separate doctor offices” … appears in ESSENCE (for primary facilities) – Staging ESSENCE: Facility Status = Onboarding, Active, Inactive – …
  • Sensitivity and Specificity of an Ngram Method for Classifying Emergency Department Visits into the Respiratory Syndrome in the Turkish Language

    Content Type: Abstract

    Previously we developed an “Ngram” classifier for syndromic surveillance of emergency department (ED) chief complaints (CC) in Turkish for bioterrorism. The classifier is developed from a set of ED visits for which both the ICD… read more
    … grouping of ICD10 codes chosen to be similar to the ESSENCE-CDC RESP ICD9 codes. We then used an Ngram method … AT&T Labs applied to the first 10 months of data as a training set to create a Turkish CC RESP classifier. We next …