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Lessons Learned from a National Capitol Region Syndromic Surveillance Tabletop Exercise, Spring 2005
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This paper describes lessons learned from a regional tabletop exercise (TTX) of the National Capital Region (NCR) Syndromic Surveillance Network, from the perspective of the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DHMH).… potential public health emergencies. Figure 1 – Map of ESSENCE NCR surveillance area. METHODS The NCR TTX simulated … protocol; more extensive training of those who monitor ESSENCE, such as alerting to “unusual” clinical cases; …Substance Abuse Among Youth in Miami-Dade County, 2005-2007
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The 2005 Youth Risk Behavior Survey of 9th to 12th graders in Miami-Dade County public schools found that 69.7% of students tried alcohol, 28.3% tried marijuana, and 6.3% tried cocaine in their lifetime. Results also showed that… read more… for Early Notification of Community Based Epidemics (ESSENCE) 2) Miami-Dade Fire Rescue 911 Call Center 3) Agency … arrests SAS 9.1.3 was utilized for analysis RESULTS ESSENCE In 2006, there were 431 ED visits for substance …Automated Detection of GI Syndrome using Structured and Non-Structured Data from the VA EMR
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Objective We performed a gold-standard manual chart review for gastro-intestinal syndrome to evaluate automated detection models based on both structured and non-structured data extracted from the VA … read more… models included “GI” ICD-9 code sets used in the “ESSENCE” and the “BioSense” syndromic surveillance systems. … on the index visit day of fever > 37.8ºC. RESULTS The ESSENCE and BioSense ICD-9 code sets detected 242 GI …Typhoid Fever v1
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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 Diseases… 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: April 2026 Definition Description: Designed to … terms. These terms were formatted for querying in ESSENCE. Text analysis was conducted on the initial query to …Shiga toxin-producing E. coli v1
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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 Diseases… 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: April 2026 Definition Description: Designed to … terms. These terms were formatted for querying in ESSENCE. Text analysis was conducted on the initial query to …Heroin Overdose v5 Parsed
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Query purpose: To assist state, local, tribal, territorial, and federal public health practitioners in monitoring emergency department (ED) visits for suspected nonfatal heroin-involved overdoses using syndromic surveillance… read more… poisoning of unintentional or undetermined intent. Within ESSENCE, the syndrome query is applied to the Chief … Revision of CDC Heroin Overdose v4 Date Added to ESSENCE: August 25, 2023 Definition Description: The heroin … poisoning of unintentional or undetermined intent. Within ESSENCE, the syndrome query is applied to the Chief …SAGES: a suite of freely available software tools for electronic disease surveillance in resource-limited settings
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Emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases are a serious threat to global public health. The World Health Organization (WHO) has identified more than 1100 epidemic events worldwide in the last 5 years alone. Recently, the emergence of the… read more… for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE). The current SAGES initiative leverages the experience gained in the develop- ment of ESSENCE; the analysis and visualization compo- nents of …What is the Value of a Positive Syndromic Surveillance Signal?
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One criterion for evaluating the effectiveness of a surveillance system is the system’s positive predictive value. To our knowledge few studies have described the positive predictive value of syndromic surveillance signals… read more… for the Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE).3 Investigations are initiated for alarm signals … for Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE II). J Urban Health 2003;80(2 Suppl 1):i32--42. …