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Syndromic Surveillance Shows Medical Surge in Dallas–Fort Worth during Hurricane Harvey, 2017
Content Type: Success Stories
Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Texas on August 25, 2017, resulting in 88 fatalities and more than $125 billion in damages to infrastructure. In Houston, flooding created a toxic mix of chemicals, sewage, biohazards, and 8 million cubic yards of… read more… and Services Program (GRASP); NSSP BioSense Platform ESSENCE Texas County-level Disaster Declarations Hurricane … -
Syndromic Surveillance for Arboviral Diseases in Arizona
Content Type: Success Stories
Arizona reports an average of 116 cases of West Nile virus (WNV) each year, and in 2015, Arizona saw a reemergence of St. Louis encephalitis (SLE) virus. In addition, Arizona is at risk for importation of viruses such as chikungunya, dengue, and… read more… August 2015 through December 2016 (before transition to ESSENCE). The evaluation will analyze how many records … August 2015 through December 2016 (before transition to ESSENCE). The evaluation will analyze how many records … -
Emergency Department Patients with Gastrointestinal Symptoms During Federal Holidays, Miami-Dade 2007-2010
Content Type: Abstract
People usually celebrate holidays by inviting family and friends to have food at home, or by gathering and eating at restaurants or in other public venues. This increased exposure to food with a common source can create conditions for outbreaks of… read more… the seasonal effect in this research. Conclusions ESSENCE can help to track the incidence of gastrointestinal … -
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. … -
Extreme Weather Surveillance
Content Type: Use Case
Problem Summary Given the background of climate change, there is an increasing demand for public health to characterize weather-related illness. The public health impact of extreme heat or cold events can be characterized from Emergency… read more… syndromic surveillance data could come from Cook County’s ESSENCE system, which is well established and may be more … -
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 … preferred by many disability advocates. However, NSSP-ESSENCE is limited by the information routinely collected in … stopgap to identify people with disabilities within NSSP-ESSENCE while we work collectively to address systemic … -
Implementation and Comparison of Preprocessing Methods for Biosurveillance Data
Content Type: Abstract
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 … for the Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE) (7). The classic Shewhart chart for monitoring the … at emergency departments The second dataset, from ESSENCE, is composed of 35 time series representing daily … -
CDC All Drug v1
Content Type: Syndrome
THE KNOWLEDGE REPOSITORY HAS BEEN UPDATED TO INCLUDE CDC ALL DRUG V2 - THE UPDATED SYNDROME DEFINITION CAN BE FOUND HERE. Purpose:… read more… Exclusions Chief complaint Exclude See list below in ESSENCE code Table 2. ESSENCE query for suspected all drug overdose (,^[;/ …