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Utilizing Emergency Department Data to Evaluate Primary Care Clinic Hours
Content Type: Abstract
In addition to utilizing syndromic surveillance data to respond to public health threats and prepare for major incidents, local health departments can utilize the data to examine patient volumes in the emergency departments (EDs) of… read more… hours’ impact on ED use. METHODS All 2007 ED visits from ESSENCE for the urban public hospital were analyzed for … -
Could Syndromic Surveillance Data be Used Effectively with Other Data Sources? A Transposable Local View
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This panel member consultation is an International Society of Disease Surveillance (ISDS) sponsored project. It involved expert personnel in their respective area to address specific, priority questions confronting researchers, developers, and… read more… with the “core” syndromic surveillance system (i.e. Essence, BioSense, etc.), and applying/analyzing several … -
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 … -
GraphScan: Detection and Analysis of Free-Form Spatio-Temporal Patterns
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By capturing the spatio-temporal organization of the data using a graph, GraphScan avoids the challenges associated with trying to “fit” incoming data into moving windows of predefined shapes and sizes. Whereas the popular space-time permutation… read more… developed that handles data on a day- by-day basis. In essence, the program consists of two major components: The … -
Systematic Comparison of Algorithms Used in Syndromic Surveillance
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Varied approaches have been used by syndromic surveillance systems for aberration detection. However, the performance of these methods has been evaluated only across a small range of epidemic characteristics. Objective… read more… Weighted Moving Average (EWMA) algorithms used by the ESSENCE system [3], with smoothing constants of 0.4 and 0.9; … -
The Performance of a NGram Classifier for Patients' Chief Complaint Based on a Computerized Pick List Entry and Free Text in an Italian Emergency Department
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Syndromic surveillance of emergency department (ED) visit data is often based on computer algorithms which assign patient chief complaints (CC) and ICD code data to syndromes. The triage nurse note (NN) has also been used for… read more… data for testing the classifiers. We used an existing ESSENCE classifier for RESP as the criterion standard for … -
Using Syndromic Data to Examine Flooding
Content Type: Success Stories
Wisconsin experienced severe flooding from August 17 to September 20, 2018. This flood caused an estimated $232 million in damage and affected 21 counties. Floods can have negative health impacts on a population, such as increased skin infections,… read more… used the Early Notification of Community based Epidemics (ESSENCE), a tool within BioSense, to track flood-related … disasters and disease outbreaks are being set up through ESSENCE. There is an effort to get more DHS employees signed … available (not yet explored) • Syndromic Surveillance – ESSENCE – Updated nightly – Rapid surveillance option … -
Temporo-spatial surveillance of influenza-like illness: preliminary results from the Idaho infectious disease reporting network
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Current influenza-like illness (ILI) monitoring in Idaho is based on syndromic surveillance using laboratory data, combined with periodic person-to-person reports collected by Idaho state workers. This system relies on voluntary … read more… 2010. References 1 Lombardo JS, Burkom H, Pavlin J. II ESSENCE and the framework for evaluating syndromic …