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  • Sensitivity and Specificity of an Ngram Method for Classifying Emergency Department Visits into the Respiratory Syndrome in the Turkish Language

    Content Type: Abstract

    Previously we developed an “Ngram” classifier for syndromic surveillance of emergency department (ED) chief complaints (CC) in Turkish for bioterrorism. The classifier is developed from a set of ED visits for which both the ICD… read more
    … grouping of ICD10 codes chosen to be similar to the ESSENCE-CDC RESP ICD9 codes. We then used an Ngram method …
  • Improvement in Performance of Ngram Classifiers with Frequent Updates

    Content Type: Abstract

      Syndromic surveillance of emergency department(ED) visit data is often based on computerized classifiers which assign patient chief complaints (CC) tosyndromes. These classifiers may need to be updatedperiodically to account for changes… read more
    … We used a lower GI grouping of ICD9 codes created by the ESSENCE-CDC pro- ject. We then used an N-Gram method adapted …
  • Florida Department of Health Syndromic Surveillance Identifies Unreported Cases of Zika Virus Disease, 2016–2017

    Content Type: Success Stories

    Zika virus disease became a significant public health problem in Brazil in 2015 and quickly spread to other South American and Central American countries. While not an overly severe illness for many, Zika virus disease has been shown to increase the… read more
    … (7), 17 Zika virus disease cases were identified using ESSENCE*–FL. These visits were not reported to public health … (7), 17 Zika virus disease cases were identified using ESSENCE*–FL. These visits were not reported to public health …
  • Ebola v1

    Content Type: Syndrome

    Query purpose: Created by the CDC National Syndromic Surveillance Program (NSSP) for use with ED data as part of the rapid reportables project, which seeks to create queries for all National Notifiable Diseases defined by the… read more
    … terms. These terms were formatted for querying in ESSENCE. Text analysis was conducted on the initial query to … or Revised Definition: Revised Definition Date Added to ESSENCE: July 2024 Definition Description: Designed to … Chief Complaint Query Validation dataset (CCQV) in ESSENCE. Development Methods: 1. The CDC team used the NNDSS …
  • Hearing Disability v1

    Content Type: Syndrome

    Query purpose: The Hearing 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 disabilities using a set of criteria… 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.  Hearing Disability ICD9 … to run on the “CC and DD parsed free text” field in ESSENCE. New or Revised Definition: New Definition Date …
  • Vision Disability v1

    Content Type: Syndrome

    Query purpose: The Vision 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 disabilities using a set of criteria… 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.  Vision Disability ICD9 … to run on the “CC and DD parsed free text” field in ESSENCE. New or Revised Definition: New Definition Date …
  • Mobility Disability v1

    Content Type: Syndrome

    Query purpose: The Mobility 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 disabilities using a set of criteria… 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.  Mobility Disability ICD9 … to run on the “CC and DD parsed free text” field in ESSENCE. New or Revised Definition: New Definition Date …
  • Evaluation of Body Temperature to Classify Influenza-Like Illness (ILI) in a Syndromic Surveillance System

    Content Type: Abstract

    This study aims to evaluate the sensitivity, specificity and Positive Predictive Value (PPV) of body temperature measurements > 100.5 žF in relationship to laboratory confirmation of influenza and other ILI pathogens.
    … For each of ten codes used to profile the ILI syndrome in ESSENCE (the Department of Defense’s syndromic surveillance …