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Intellectual and Developmental Disability v1
Content Type: Syndrome
Query purpose: The Intellectual and Developmental 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… read more… to run on the “CC and DD parsed free text” field in ESSENCE. How it was developed: The Association of State and … -
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 F 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 … -
The NGram CC Classifier: A Novel Method of Automatically Creating CC Classifiers Based on ICD9 Groupings
Content Type: Abstract
Syndromic surveillance of emergency department (ED) visit data is often based on computer algorithms which assign patient chief complaints (CC) to syndromes. ICD9 code data may also be used to develop visit classifiers for syndromic surveillance but… read more… visits). We used as our ICD9 classifier an existing ESSENCE filter for “lower GI” modified by removing … -
Using NLP on VA Electronic Medical Records to Facilitate Epidemiologic Case Investigations
Content Type: Abstract
A major goal of biosurveillance is the timely detection of an infectious disease outbreak. Once a disease has been identified, another very important goal is to find all known cases of the disease to assist public health… read more… the first stage, we used structured data and BioSense and ESSENCE ICD 9 codes on records during the study period … -
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 … -
Malaria 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 … New or Revised Definition: New Definition Date Added to ESSENCE: July 2024 Definition Description: Designed to … -
Trichinellosis v1
Content Type: Syndrome
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 … -
Zika 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 … New or Revised Definition: New Definition Date Added to ESSENCE: July 2024 Definition Description: Designed to …