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Substance Abuse Among Youth in Miami-Dade County, 2005-2007
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The 2005 Youth Risk Behavior Survey of 9th to 12th graders in Miami-Dade County public schools found that 69.7% of students tried alcohol, 28.3% tried marijuana, and 6.3% tried cocaine in their lifetime. Results also showed that… read more… for Early Notification of Community Based Epidemics (ESSENCE) 2) Miami-Dade Fire Rescue 911 Call Center 3) Agency … arrests SAS 9.1.3 was utilized for analysis RESULTS ESSENCE In 2006, there were 431 ED visits for substance … -
Experts Collaborate to Develop a Standardized Syndrome Definition for Cold-related Illness
Content Type: Success Stories
In winter, people are at risk for cold-related illness (CRI) such as hypothermia. Deaths coded as weather-related from 2006 through 2010 showed exposure to excessive cold as the leading cause of weather-related deaths in the United States.1… read more… variation in terms, inclusion and exclusion terms, ESSENCE query syntax, potential applications and … Practice. The CRI definition has been implemented in NSSP–ESSENCE,* and associated documentation will be posted in the … -
CDC Youth Violence v1
Content Type: Syndrome
Query purpose: Youth violence is the intentional use of physical force or power to… read more… to capture these types of violence can be found in ESSENCE). The goal of this syndrome definition is to assist … diagnoses, several states used supplementary fields in ESSENCE, such as triage notes or clinical impressions, to … -
Electronic Surveillance for Injury Prevention Using a Physician-Operated System
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When hazardous materials or products emerge in the market, injury prevention researchers take action to promote awareness and legislation with the goal to prevent further injuries. This cannot be achieved without reliable data on trends and outcomes… read more… Endie Waziri2 and Adebola T. Olayinka1 Integrating R into ESSENCE to Enable Custom Data Analysis and Visualization … Tran Day of Week Analysis of Myocardial Infarctions Using ESSENCE-FL Emergency Department Data Allison B. Culpepper*, … -
Syndromic Surveillance of Non-traumatic Dental Conditions in Idaho Core Areas
Content Type: Success Stories
Access to dental care is a public health problem in Idaho because most of the state is experiencing a shortage of dental health professionals. The Idaho Oral Health program has anecdotal evidence that some Idahoans compensate for this shortage by… read more… activity began in spring 2017 with the development of an ESSENCE* query to identify non-traumatic dental care visits. … activity began in spring 2017 with the development of an ESSENCE* query to identify non-traumatic dental care visits. … -
Public health surveillance after the Haiti earthquake: the Florida experience
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On 12 January 2010 at 1652 hours local time, an earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale struck near the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince and created enormous devastation. Florida, as the state closest to Haiti, became an initial focal point… read more… for the Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE). On 15 January 15 2010, the Florida Department of … of Epidemiology, requested that hospitals reporting to ESSENCE add the word ‘Haiti’ to chief complaints of visits … -
Implementation and Comparison of Preprocessing Methods for Biosurveillance Data
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Modern biosurveillance relies on multiple sources of both prediagnostic and diagnostic data, updated daily, to discover disease outbreaks. Intrinsic to this effort are two assumptions: (1) the data being analyzed contain early indicators… read more… Aberration Reporting System; ED, emergency department; ESSENCE, Electronic Surveillance Systems for the Early … -
CDC Stimulant v2
Content Type: Syndrome
THE KNOWLEDGE REPOSITORY HAS BEEN UPDATED TO INCLUDE CDC STIMULANT OVERDOSE V3 - THE UPDATED SYNDROME DEFINITION CAN BE FOUND HERE.… read more… Exclusions Chief complaint Exclude See list below in ESSENCE code (most around molly and crack) Table 2. ESSENCE query for suspected stimulant overdose (,^[;/ …