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  • Use of Epidemiological Knowledge to Create Syndromic Surveillance Reports

    Content Type: Abstract

    Syndromic surveillance is an investigational approach used to monitor trends of illness in communities. It relies on pre-diagnostic health data rather than laboratory-confirmed clinical diagnoses. Its primary purpose is to detect… read more
    … for the Early Notification of Community Based Epidemics (ESSENCE) BACKGROUND Syndromic surveillance is an … necessary. In addition, the epidemiologist analyzing ESSENCE also monitors the county’s 911 Call Center and …
  • Enabling User-Driven Public Health Analyses through Automated Data Querying

    Content Type: Abstract

    Public health officials are now receiving more data than ever in electronic formats, and also stand to benefit more than ever from ongoing advances in the medical and epidemiological sciences. At the same time, this growing … read more
    … for the Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE II).” Journal of Urban Health, Volume 80(2)S1: …
  • Text-Processing of VA Clinical Notes to Improve Case Detection Models for Influenza-like Illness

    Content Type: Abstract

    Objective There were two objectives of this analysis. First, apply text-processing methods to free-text clinician notes extracted from the VA electronic medical record for automated detection of Influenza-Like-Illness. Secondly,… read more
    … the text-processing techniques alone and with addition of ESSENCE based ICD9 codes (VAMHCS 197) and clinical data … (91%,91%,16%). Combining text-processing methods with ESSENCE based ICD-9 codes or adding expectorant orders …
  • Enhanced Public Health Surveillance Activities in Miami-Dade County for Super Bowl XLI

    Content Type: Abstract

    A large event such as the Super Bowl that attracts over 120,000 visitors to an area within a short period of time has the potential to increase the risk of communicable diseases and environmental hazards in a community in… read more
    … for the Early Notification of Community Based Epidemics (ESSENCE), the Miami-Dade Fire Rescue 911 Call Center data … the average of 2,315 for the first two months of 2007. ESSENCE detected a significant increase of cases with …
  • A Framework for Evaluating Temporal Alerting Algorithms Used in Syndromic Surveillance Systems

    Content Type: Abstract

    This abstract describes a suite of software utilities that have been developed for systematically evaluating the detection performance and robustness of univariate temporal alerting algorithms used in syndromic surveillance systems.
    … terms of both detection performance and ro- bustness, the ESSENCE Univariate Alerting Algorithm Test Framework … performance of the principal alert- ing algorithm used in ESSENCE to the performance of the EARS C1, C2, and C3 …
  • Heroin Overdose v5 Parsed

    Content Type: Syndrome

    Query purpose: To assist state, local, tribal, territorial, and federal public health practitioners in monitoring emergency department (ED) visits for suspected nonfatal heroin-involved overdoses using syndromic surveillance… read more
    … poisoning of unintentional or undetermined intent. Within ESSENCE, the syndrome query is applied to the Chief … Revision of CDC Heroin Overdose v4 Date Added to ESSENCE: August 25, 2023 Definition Description: The heroin …
  • Discovering the New Frontier of Syndromic Surveillance (Pt 1): A Meaningful Use Dialogue on the Nebraska and Washington Implementations

    Content Type: Webinar

    This webinar is part of the Meaningful Use Webinar Series entitled "Discovering the New Frontier of Syndromic Surveillance: A Meaningful Use Dialogue" Our third Meaningful Use webinar continues our discussion on state implementation of inpatient… read more
    … ○  Test messages received from 14 facilities (3 new) �  ESSENCE system hosted by DOH Syndromic Surveillance … transport SFT (8 feeds) PHINMS (1 feed) Data elements ESSENCE only ESSENCE + *ADT^A01^ADT_A01, ADT^A03^ADT_A03, …
  • Syndromic Surveillance Signal Investigation in Los Angeles County

    Content Type: Abstract

    In the fall of 2001, the Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response (BT P&R) Unit initiated a syndromic surveillance system utilizing chief complaint data collected from Emergency Departments throughout Los Angeles County (LAC). Chief complaint data… read more
    … (i.e., Terrorism Early Warning Group, Pro-Med, Epi-X, ESSENCE, BioSense, ReddiNet®, VCMR, Outbreak log, coroner …