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CDC Opioid v2
Content Type: Syndrome
THE KNOWLEDGE REPOSITORY HAS BEEN UPDATED TO INCLUDE CDC OPIOID V3 - THE UPDATED SYNDROME DEFINITION CAN BE FOUND HERE. States currently funded by… read more… Exclusions Chief complaint Exclude See list below in ESSENCE code (many exclusions were required for “oxy” and “fent”) Table 2. ESSENCE query for suspected opioid overdose … -
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 … this definition, the following existing definitions in ESSENCE must be excluded: Sexual Violence v1 Sexual Violence … diagnoses, several states used supplementary fields in ESSENCE, such as triage notes or clinical impressions, to … -
Cognition and Central Nervous System Disability v1
Content Type: Syndrome
Query purpose: The Cognition and Central Nervous System 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… read more… to run on the “CC and DD parsed free text” field in ESSENCE. How it was developed: The Association of State and … to run on the “CC and DD parsed free text” field in ESSENCE. Cognition and Central Nervous System ICD9 … to run on the “CC and DD parsed free text” field in ESSENCE. New or Revised Definition: New Definition Date … -
Comparison of 2005-2007 Influenza-Like Illness Observed from Emergency Department Visits in Miami-Dade County
Content Type: Abstract
The purpose of this study was to compare the 2005- 2006 and 2006-2007 Influenza seasons using Influenza-like illness (ILI) data received from Emergency Departments in Miami-Dade County.… MDCHD has implemented a syndromic surveillance system (ESSENCE) to monitor ILI trends from data received from … -
Talking Turkish: Using N-Grams for Syndromic Surveillance in a Turkish Emergency Department without the Need for English Translation
Content Type: Abstract
Previously we used an “N-Gram” classifier for syndromic surveillance of emergency department (ED) chief complaints (CC) in English for bioterrorism. The classifier is trained on a set of ED visits for which both the ICD diagnosis code and CC are… read more… respiratory grouping of ICD9 codes created by the ESSENCE-CDC project. We then used an N- Gram method adapted … -
Enhancing Syndromic Surveillance through Cross-border Data Sharing
Content Type: Abstract
In the fall of 2006, the Ohio Department of Health (ODH) and the Indiana State Department of Health (ISDH) proactively began general discussions regarding surveillance issues of mutual interest. Both states, having operational… read more… for the Early Notification of Community- based Epidemics (ESSENCE). Each state desired to view the new shared data … -
Utilization of Public Health Surveillance Data for Early Detection of Drinking Water Contamination
Content Type: Abstract
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) has developed a prototype contamination warning system (CWS) for drinking water in response to Homeland Security Presidential Directive 9 (HSPD9). The goal of HSPD9 and the CWS is to… read more… health departments. The EPA is working with RODS and ESSENCE to enhance capabilities to detect a drinking water … -
Optimizing Performance of an Ngram Method for Classifying Emergency Department Visits into the Respiratory Syndrome
Content Type: Abstract
A number of different methods are currently used to classify patients into syndromic groups based on the patient’s chief complaint (CC). We previously reported results using an “Ngram” text processing program for building classifiers… read more… visits). We used as our ICD9 classifier an existing ESSENCE filter for the respiratory syndrome, RESP. The ICD9 …