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  • Disaster-related Mental Health v1 - Syndrome Definition Subcommittee

    Content Type: Syndrome

    Why was the syndrome created? This is a Syndrome Definition (SD) Subcommittee community-developed syndrome definition for mental health conditions likely to increase in emergency department frequency during and after natural or… read more
    … code. The query has been added to NSSP BioSense Platform ESSENCE as a CC and DD Category called Disaster-related … code. The query has been added to NSSP BioSense Platform ESSENCE as a CC and DD Category called Disaster-related …
  • Effective Collaboration Models for Statiscians and Public Health Departments

    Content Type: Abstract

    Public health departments need enhanced surveillance tools for population monitoring, and external researchers have expertise and methods to provide these tools. However, collaboration with potential solution developers and students in academia,… read more
    … Among the tools most desired by respondents were the ESSENCE biosurveillance system with multiple analytic tools … Among the tools most desired by respondents were the ESSENCE biosurveillance system with multiple analytic tools …
  • Storms - Kansas Department of Health and Environment

    Content Type: Syndrome

    This is a cluster of syndromes created to populate an extreme weather myESSENCE tab. The intent was to increase repeatability of our weather surveillance and have something where a user can use the "Change Region" option to select whatever county,… read more
    … a major work-in progress. All of this as done in NSSP ESSENCE on Emergency Room data. Fields are specified by each … a major work-in progress. All of this as done in NSSP ESSENCE on Emergency Room data. Fields are specified by each …
  • Data Sharing Through Dashboards: The Who, What, Where, When, and Why

    Content Type: Webinar

    Presented April 26, 2019. Description: Join us for this lightning talk webinar experience where you will see multiple examples of data dashboards and learn more about who they were created for, how… read more
    … the National Capital Region for 5 years as the lead for ESSENCE program at the Maryland Department of Health and … the National Capital Region for 5 years as the lead for ESSENCE program at the Maryland Department of Health and …
  • CDC Suspected Child Abuse and Neglect v1

    Content Type: Syndrome

    Why the syndrome was created: The purpose of the suspected child abuse and neglect (sCAN) syndromic surveillance query is to monitor trends in childhood abuse and neglect in emergency departments and… read more
    … for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE) as a Chief Complaint and Discharge Diagnosis (CC … for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE) as a Chief Complaint and Discharge Diagnosis (CC …
  • Assessing and Optimizing the Accuracy of Physician Billing Claims for Use in Automated Syndromic Surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    To assess the accuracy of community-based physician claims for identifying 5 syndromes: fever, gastrointestinal, neurological, rash, and respiratory.
    … [2] DoD-GEIS. 2003. ICD-9 code set used in ESSENCE. … E/ESSENCE.asp#ICD9 [3] CDC. 2003. Syndrome definitions for … http://www.geis.fhp.osd.mil/GEIS/SurveillanceActivities/ESSENCE/ESSENCE.asp#ICD9 …
  • Use of Informatics for Understanding Disease Activity in Community

    Content Type: Abstract

    Centre for Health Protection (CHP) plans to conduct a pilot project in developing a syndromic surveillance system using data from Emergency Departments (ED) in Hong Kong. This is part of the Communicable Disease Information System initiative, which… read more
    … are re- grouped into 10 syndrome groups according to the ESSENCE (1) for subsequent calculation of syn- drome … E/ESSENCE.asp [2] Hutwagner L, Browne T, Seeman GM, … http://www.geis.fhp.osd.mil/GEIS/SurveillanceActivities/ESSENCE/ESSENCE.asp …
  • 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 … using ICD-9 and ICD-10 codes. For the summer of 2017, ESSENCE was used to detect HRI visits between May 1 st and September 12 th . Detection of HRI visits in ESSENCE was performed using ICD-10 codes and chief complaint …