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  • Canadian and United States Cross-Border Collaboration for Syndromic Surveillance: Overview and Recommendations from an International Society for Disease Surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    The objectives of this consultation, supported by the International Society for Disease Surveillance (ISDS), were to develop expert, consensus-based recommendations to promote Canadian and U.S. collaboration in using syndromic surveillance (SS) to… read more
    … in the United States: BIOSENSE and CDC activities, ESSENCE, state and local systems Details of systems in …
  • Regional Syndromic Surveillance Data Sharing Workshop: HHS Region 10

    Content Type: Report

    The HHS Region 10 workshop engaged nine participants from state and local public health departments in Idaho, Oregon, and Washington with experience in syndromic surveillance that ranged from less than 1 year to over 10 years. Representatives from… read more
    … visit 3 o Classifiers used—ICD-9, BioSense, home-grown, ESSENCE o BioSense classifier vs. home classifier showed … will be onboarding hospitals to get ED data and obtain ESSENCE o GI group will have email communication and at …
  • Check! Explore barriers and solutions to data sharing to BioSense 2.0

    Content Type: Abstract

    The benefits of inter-jurisdictional data sharing have been touted as a hallmark of BioSense 2.0, a cloud-based computing platform for syndromic surveillance. A key feature of the BioSense 2.0 platform is the ability to share data across… read more
    … analytic tools continue to be prominently used, chiefly ESSENCE (aberration detection software licensed by the John … & Analysis Software In Use Future BioSense ESSENCE RODS EARS AEGIS Other, specify BioS ESS ROD EAR AEG …
  • Expert Meeting on Privacy, Confidentiality, and Other Legal and Ethical Issues in Syndromic Surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    For syndromic and related public health surveillance systems to be effective, state and local health departments and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) need access to a variety of types of health data. Since the development and… read more
    … can help in drafting data use agreements, providing in essence a checklist of issues that must be addressed and …
  • Can Chief Complaints Identify Patients with Febrile Syndromes?

    Content Type: Abstract

     Syndromic surveillance systems often classify patients into syndromic categories based on emergency department (ED) chief complaints. There exists no standard set of syndromes for syndromic surveillance, and the available syndromic case… read more
    … for the early notification of community-based epidemics (ESSENCE II). J Urban Health 2003;80(Suppl 1):i32–42. 22. …
  • Heat Related Illness v2

    Content Type: Syndrome

    Query purpose: To assist state, local, tribal, territorial, and federal public health practitioners in monitoring emergency department (ED) visits for heat-related illness.Definition description: The Heat… read more
    … Definition: Revision of Heat Related Illness v1 Added to ESSENCE: April 2019 Definition Description: The Heat Related …
  • CDC Suspected Sex Trafficking v1

    Content Type: Syndrome

    Query purpose: The purpose of this definition is to assist state, local, tribal, territorial, and federal public health practitioners in detecting and monitoring trends of suspected sex trafficking among emergency departments… read more
    … New or Revised Definition: New Definition Date Added to ESSENCE: July 11, 2023 Development Methods: CDC subject …
  • CDC Broad Acute Respiratory DD v1

    Content Type: Syndrome

    Query purpose: To assist state, tribal, local, territorial, and federal public health practitioners in identifying visits in the emergency department (ED) and urgent care (UC) settings with diagnostic codes associated with a… read more
    … pneumonia. New or Revised Definition: New Date Added to ESSENCE: June 17, 2022 Definition Description: This …