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How Oregon Tested its Mass Gathering Protocol and Mobilized Communities
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Mass gatherings (e.g., concerts, festivals, sporting events, political rallies, and religious gatherings) pose unique challenges to public health officials. Risks associated with large events can vary and are influenced by factors such as crowd… read more… and plan interventions. The guide provided reminders on ESSENCE functionality (e.g., develop queries, set up and … Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics, known as ESSENCE. All 60 eligible hospitals send ED data every day … than 3,000 persons.” 2 Oregon Health Authority. Oregon Essence: Using ESSENCE for Mass Gathering Surveillance … -
Kansas Uses a Novel Approach to Assess Injuries to Agricultural Workers
Content Type: Success Stories
Agriculture can be a hazardous industry. Farmers, and oftentimes their family members, are at high risk for injuries, fatalities, and illness. Risks include exposure to pesticides on crop farms and use of tractors, farming equipment, and other… read more… the extent of agriculture injuries, KDHE opted to use ESSENCE. The ESSENCE syndromic surveillance (SyS) software … collects prediagnostic data almost in real time. With ESSENCE, once a query has been written, sharing it is easy. … -
Another Type of Cluster Monitoring: Detection of Groups of Anomalous Patient Residence Locations
Content Type: Abstract
The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) uses the Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics to detect disease outbreaks and other health-related events earlier than other forms of surveillance. Although… read more… for the Early Notification of Community- based Epidemics (ESSENCE) to detect disease outbreaks and other … Health Care System*Baltimore Medical Center. Using ESSENCE, daily counts of ICD-9 codes related to influenza … -
CDC Suicide Attempt v2
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Definition Purpose: To assist state, local, tribal, territorial, and federal public health practitioners in identifying emergency department (ED) visits for suspected suicide attempts. The definition can be used to supplement case-finding using… read more… Revision of CDC Suicide Attempt v1 Date Added to ESSENCE: December 7, 2022 Justification for New Version: … the Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics, or ESSENCE, manually reviewing the visits that were pulled, … -
Increasing the Return-on-Investment from Syndromic Surveillance: Putting the Systems to Work for Routine Local Health Department Activities
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Since October 2004, the Indiana State Health Department and the Marion County Health Department have been developing and using a syndromic surveillance system based on emergency department admission data. The system … read more… The MCHD monitors the ED data using two methods: 1) the ESSENCE (Electronic Surveillance System for the Early … with chief complaints that would not trigger an alert in ESSENCE, the MCHD also uses user-defined queries in ESSENCE … -
Early Identification of Salmonella Cases Using Syndromic Surveillance
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On June 7, 2008, federal food protection and public health agencies alerted consumers of a nationwide outbreak of Salmonella Saintpaul infections. As of June 30, 2008, 851 persons infected with Salmonella Saintpaul with the same… read more… for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE). In Maryland, 30% of acute care hospitals in the … Metro and National Capital Regions, send ED data to ESSENCE. Although syndromic surveillance is not generally … -
Functional Priorities Activity Report
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The purpose of this document is to correlate BioSense activities (inclusive of CDC, BGG, User Community) with community defined functional priorities.… and dashboards • Installation of SAS • Installation of ESSENCE • • Identify DQ metrics (DQ WG) • Develop Data … 30 Update software packages available to users • ESSENCE, SAS, R Professional • • • • 31 Address issues … -
Use of Informatics for Understanding Disease Activity in Community
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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 … http://www.geis.fhp.osd.mil/GEIS/SurveillanceActivities/ESSENCE/ESSENCE.asp …
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