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  • How to Use RStudio ESSENCE API Guide - Updated Jan. 2023

    Content Type: Report

    This RStudio API guide provides an overview of the ESSENCE APIs and how to access them through RStudio. We will begin with a very brief explanation of application programming interfaces (APIs), then list what APIs are available in ESSENCE, and… read more
  • Heat Related Illness v2

    Content Type: Syndrome

    Query purpose: To assist state, local, tribal, territorial, and federal public health practitioners in monitoring emergency department (ED) visits for heat-related illness.Definition description: The Heat… read more
  • Suspected Human Trafficking v1

    Content Type: Syndrome

    Query purpose:Human trafficking occurs when a person uses force, fraud, or coercion for the purposes of exploitative labor, debt bondage, servitude, or engagement in a commercial sex act (Office on Trafficking in Persons, 2020;… read more
  • Mumps V2

    Content Type: Syndrome

    Definition Purpose: Created in collaboration between subject matter experts from the CDC National Syndromic Surveillance Program (NSSP) and CDC Viral Vaccine Preventable Diseases Branch (VVPDB)’s mumps program for use with emergency… read more
  • Rubella V1

    Content Type: Syndrome

    Definition Purpose: Created by the CDC National Syndromic Surveillance Program (NSSP) for use with emergency department data to develop queries for all National Notifiable Diseases defined by the National Notifiable… read more
  • Toxic Shock Syndrome

    Content Type: Syndrome

    Definition Purpose: Created by the CDC National Syndromic Surveillance Program (NSSP) for use with emergency department data to develop queries for all National Notifiable Diseases defined by the National Notifiable Diseases… read more
  • Lyme Carditis v1

    Content Type: Syndrome

    Query purpose: This definition aims to detect emergency department (ED) visits for Lyme carditis in areas where Lyme disease is common. Lyme carditis occurs when Lyme disease spirochetes (bacteria) invade heart tissue. To fit… read more
  • 2026 Syndromic Surveillance Symposium

    Content Type: Report

    The Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE), in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Syndromic Surveillance Program (NSSP), virtually convened the 2026 Syndromic Surveillance… read more