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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 … Based Epidemics) system, and 2) a custom ISDH query. ESSENCE is used to detect unexpected elevations within eight … with chief complaints that would not trigger an alert in ESSENCE, the MCHD also uses user-defined queries in ESSENCE …Spatio-Temporal Visualizations as Interface: Constructing Geographic Animations of Disease Surveillance Data in a Syndromic Surveillance System
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As the Georgia Division of Public Health began constructing a systems interface for its syndromic surveillance program, the nature and intended use of these data inspired new approaches to interface design. With the temporal and spatial components… read more… awareness system. MMWR 2005;54(suppl):11-19. [4] DoD, ESSENCE: Electronic surveillance system for the early … http://www.geis.fhp.osd.mil/geis/surveillanceactivities/essence/ess ence.asp Further Information: Karl Soetebier, …Defining Clinical Condition Categories for Biosurveillance
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The goal of this project is to create a set of clinical condition categories based on explicit criteria for use in biosurveillance programs. The categories will be defined and keywords and ICD-9-CM diagnosis codes for implementation will be proposed.… categories (called “sub- syndromes” in the BioSense and ESSENCE programs) for analysis of electronic health data in … Harmonizing clinical condition categories in BioSense and ESSENCE will allow more consistency in interpretation of … and 4) must support the syndromes currently used by ESSENCE and BioSense. A spreadsheet was populated with …Catchment Area of Miami Children's Hospital Emergency Room - Implications for Syndromic Surveillance in Miami-Dade County
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This research aims to determine the catchment area of Miami Children's Hospital Emergency Department (ED). The purpose is to identify pediatric populations and territories within Miami-Dade County that are insufficiently covered by this hospital's… read more… for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE) to conduct syndromic surveillance [1]. Patients’ … complaint records from 14 Hospitals EDs are fed into ESSENCE on a daily basis. This research focuses on Miami … these areas visit other EDs currently feeding data into ESSENCE. Was the answer negative, they should be prioritized …Syndrome evaluation of individuals reporting emergency department utilization for notifiable disease and conditions
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The Duval County Health Department (DCHD) serves a community of over one million people in Jacksonville, FL, USA. Each year, DCHD Epidemiology Program reports an average of 1133 (4-year average) notifiable diseases and conditions (NDC)… read more… for Early Notification of Community- based Epidemics (ESSENCE) of Florida. Historically, evaluations of SS systems … usage during their course of illness was documented. An ESSENCE review was then conducted to match cases reporting … date of visit, age, zip code, sex, and race, instead of ESSENCE unique patient identifier. Case investigation data …Kansas Uses a Novel Approach to Assess Injuries to Agricultural Workers
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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 application … collects prediagnostic data almost in real time. With ESSENCE, once a query has been written, sharing it is easy. … the extent of agriculture injuries, KDHE opted to use ESSENCE. The ESSENCE syndromic surveillance (SyS) software …Combining Laboratory Test Orders and Outpatient Visits to Monitor Respiratory Illness
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To evaluate whether joint monitoring of laboratory test orders and outpatient visits improves the sensitivity and timeliness of alerting during seasonal increases in respiratory illness.… in- creases in respiratory illness. BACKGROUND The ESSENCE surveillance system in use by the Department of … patient visits associated with respiratory illness using ESSENCE syndrome definitions documented in … tivities/ESSENCE/ESSENCE.asp>. Microbiology laboratory tests assigned …West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources Syndromic Surveillance for Mass Gatherings
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Mass gatherings—defined as events attended by a sufficient number of people to strain the planning and response resources of the host state—pose unique surveillance challenges. Attendees can be at greater (or high) risk for injuries due to… read more… care facility. An off-site surveillance team used NSSP–ESSENCE* to provide daily situational awareness reports to … discharged, and expired). Enhanced surveillance using ESSENCE enabled public health officials to conduct near … health officials conducted SyS at this event. They used ESSENCE to run reports for event organizers, Dept. of …