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  • Benzodiazepine Overdose v2 Parsed

    Content Type: Syndrome

    Query purpose: To assist state, local, tribal, territorial, and federal public health practitioners in monitoring emergency department (ED) visits for suspected nonfatal benzodiazepine-involved overdoses using syndromic… read more
    … poisoning of unintentional or undetermined intent. Within ESSENCE, the syndrome query is applied to the Chief … Revision of CDC Benzodiazepine Overdose v1 Date Added to ESSENCE: June 18, 2023 Definition Description: The … 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

    Content Type: Abstract

    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?

    Content Type: Abstract

    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. …
  • Experts Collaborate to Develop a Standardized Syndrome Definition for Cold-related Illness

    Content Type: Success Stories

    In winter, people are at risk for cold-related illness (CRI) such as hypothermia. Deaths coded as weather-related from 2006 through 2010 showed exposure to excessive cold as the leading cause of weather-related deaths in the United States.1… read more
    … variation in terms, inclusion and exclusion terms, ESSENCE query syntax, potential applications and … Practice. The CRI definition has been implemented in NSSP–ESSENCE,* and associated documentation will be posted in the … variation in terms, inclusion and exclusion terms, ESSENCE query syntax, potential applications and …
  • Syndromic Surveillance Climate and Health Guidance Document

    Content Type: Report

    In general, data from public health surveillance can be used for short- and long-term planning and response through retrospective data analysis of trends over time or specific events. Combining health outcome data (e.g., hospitalizations or deaths)… read more
    … for the Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE) within the National Syndromic Surveillance Program (NSSP)1, local installations of ESSENCE, commercial syndromic surveillance systems such as … with preclinical 1 The NSSP BioSense platform hosts ESSENCE along with a number of other software tools …
  • Public health surveillance after the Haiti earthquake: the Florida experience

    Content Type: Abstract

    On 12 January 2010 at 1652 hours local time, an earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale struck near the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince and created enormous devastation. Florida, as the state closest to Haiti, became an initial focal point… read more
    … for the Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE). On 15 January 15 2010, the Florida Department of … of Epidemiology, requested that hospitals reporting to ESSENCE add the word ‘Haiti’ to chief complaints of visits …
  • Electronic Surveillance for Injury Prevention Using a Physician-Operated System

    Content Type: Abstract

    When hazardous materials or products emerge in the market, injury prevention researchers take action to promote awareness and legislation with the goal to prevent further injuries. This cannot be achieved without reliable data on trends and outcomes… read more
    … Endie Waziri2 and Adebola T. Olayinka1 Integrating R into ESSENCE to Enable Custom Data Analysis and Visualization … Tran Day of Week Analysis of Myocardial Infarctions Using ESSENCE-FL Emergency Department Data Allison B. Culpepper*, … Enhancing the BioSense Platform: Findings from an ESSENCE and SAS Pilot Project Cassandra N. Davis* French …
  • Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS) 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 … Chief Complaint Query Validation dataset (CCQV) in ESSENCE. Development Methods: 1. The CDC team used the NNDSS …