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Use of Epidemiological Knowledge to Create Syndromic Surveillance Reports
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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 … for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE), a data management/analysis system developed by …Enhanced Public Health Surveillance Activities in Miami-Dade County for Super Bowl XLI
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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 … have lasted for a maximum of 5 days (Figure 1). Both ESSENCE and 911 call center data detected a statistically …A Framework for Evaluating Temporal Alerting Algorithms Used in Syndromic Surveillance Systems
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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 … of specificity and timeliness of detection. However, the ESSENCE algorithm is generally more sensitive to upsurges …Increase in Pneumonia Cases as an Early Indicator of Severe and Pandemic Influenza Outbreak
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Objective To enable the early detection of pandemic influenza, we have designed a system to differentiate between severe and mild influenza outbreaks. Historic information about previous pandemics suggested the evaluation of two… read more… expected influenza season. Methods Data are collected by ESSENCE (Electronic Surveillance System for the Early … processes the data using algorithms currently deployed by ESSENCE [2] to detect statistical anomalies within each of … for the Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE II), J Urban Health, Vol. 80(2 Suppl 1):i32–42. …Another Type of Cluster Monitoring: Detection of Groups of Anomalous Patient Residence Locations
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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 diagnoses (as defined by VA ESSENCE influenza- like illness [ILI] syndrome group) were …Text-Processing of VA Clinical Notes to Improve Case Detection Models for Influenza-like Illness
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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 … as MedLEE. However, models combining NegEx with ESSENCE based ICD-9 codes or expectorant orders provide high …Spotted Fever Rickettsiosis v1
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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 …Psittacosis v1
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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 Disease… 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: February 2025 Definition Description: Designed to … Chief Complaint Query Validation dataset (CCQV) in ESSENCE. Development Methods: 1. The CDC team used the NNDSS …