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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 … http://www.geis.fhp.osd.mil/GEIS/SurveillanceActivities/ESSENC E/ESSENCE.asp [2] Hutwagner L, Browne T, Seeman GM, …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 …Ebola v1
Content Type: Syndrome
Query purpose: Created by the CDC National Syndromic Surveillance Program (NSSP) for use with ED data as part of the rapid reportables project, which seeks to create queries for all National Notifiable Diseases defined by the… read more… terms. These terms were formatted for querying in ESSENCE. Text analysis was conducted on the initial query to … or Revised Definition: Revised Definition Date Added to ESSENCE: July 2024 Definition Description: Designed to … Chief Complaint Query Validation dataset (CCQV) in ESSENCE. Development Methods: 1. The CDC team used the NNDSS …Overall Disability (v1)
Content Type: Syndrome
Query purpose: The Overall Disability (v1) definition is part of a group of eight definitions (seven domain-specific and one overall) to identify emergency department visits by people with disabilities using a set of criteria… read more… to run on the “CC and DD parsed free text” field in ESSENCE. How it was developed: The Association of State and … preferred by many disability advocates. However, NSSP-ESSENCE is limited by the information routinely collected in … stopgap to identify people with disabilities within NSSP-ESSENCE while we work collectively to address systemic …CDC Suicide Attempt v2
Content Type: Syndrome
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, … labeled as Chief Complaint Updates when exported from ESSENCE) and the Discharge Diagnosis History field (also …Intellectual and Developmental Disability v1
Content Type: Syndrome
Query purpose: The Intellectual and Developmental Disability (v1) definition is part of a group of eight definitions (seven domain-specific and one overall) to identify emergency department visits by people with disabilities… read more… to run on the “CC and DD parsed free text” field in ESSENCE. How it was developed: The Association of State and … preferred by many disability advocates. However, NSSP-ESSENCE is limited by the information routinely collected in … stopgap to identify people with disabilities within NSSP-ESSENCE while we work collectively to address systemic …Q Fever v1
Content Type: Syndrome
Query purpose: Created by the CDC National Syndromic Surveillance Program (NSSP) for use with ED data as part of the rapid reportables project, which seeks to create queries for all National Notifiable Diseases defined by the… read more… terms. These terms were formatted for querying in ESSENCE. Text analysis was conducted on the initial query to … New or Revised Definition: New Definition Date Added to ESSENCE: July 2025 Definition Description: Designed to … terms. These terms were formatted for querying in ESSENCE. Text analysis was conducted on the initial query to …Anaplasmosis v1
Content Type: Syndrome
Query 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… terms. These terms were formatted for querying in ESSENCE. Text analysis was conducted on the initial query to … New or Revised Definition: New Definition Date Added to ESSENCE: July 2025 Definition Description: Designed to … terms. These terms were formatted for querying in ESSENCE. Text analysis was conducted on the initial query to …