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Florida Department of Health Syndromic Surveillance Identifies Unreported Cases of Zika Virus Disease, 2016–2017
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Zika virus disease became a significant public health problem in Brazil in 2015 and quickly spread to other South American and Central American countries. While not an overly severe illness for many, Zika virus disease has been shown to increase the… read more… (7), 17 Zika virus disease cases were identified using ESSENCE*–FL. These visits were not reported to public health … (7), 17 Zika virus disease cases were identified using ESSENCE*–FL. These visits were not reported to public health …The NGram CC Classifier: A Novel Method of Automatically Creating CC Classifiers Based on ICD9 Groupings
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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 …Syndromic Surveillance Signal Investigation in Los Angeles County
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In the fall of 2001, the Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response (BT P&R) Unit initiated a syndromic surveillance system utilizing chief complaint data collected from Emergency Departments throughout Los Angeles County (LAC). Chief complaint data… read more… (i.e., Terrorism Early Warning Group, Pro-Med, Epi-X, ESSENCE, BioSense, ReddiNet®, VCMR, Outbreak log, coroner …Using NLP on VA Electronic Medical Records to Facilitate Epidemiologic Case Investigations
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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
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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 …Long COVID Narrow v1
Content Type: Syndrome
Query purpose: To assist state, local, tribal, territorial, and federal public health practitioners in identifying patients likely to have long COVID (also commonly described as Post-COVID Complications (PCC) or long-haul COVID… read more… relevant free text terms under Chief Complaint History in ESSENCE and run text analysis to identify: 1. Any missing, … ☐ Revision of Existing Definition Date Added to ESSENCE: December 2024 Definition Description: The … can still utilize the definition without problem, as ESSENCE will query available fields only. If you do not wish …CDC All Stimulant Overdose v4 Parsed
Content Type: Syndrome
Query purpose: To assist state, local, tribal, territorial, and federal public health practitioners in monitoring emergency department visits for suspected nonfatal stimulant-involved overdoses using syndromic surveillance data… read more… poisoning of unintentional or undetermined intent. Within ESSENCE, the syndrome query is applied to the Chief … Revision of CDC All Stimulant Overdose v3 Date Added to ESSENCE: January 6, 2023 Definition Description: The CDC All … poisoning of unintentional or undetermined intent. Within ESSENCE, the syndrome query is applied to the Chief …Syndrome Definition (SD) Subcommittee Calls
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… Syndrome) - Recording , Slides , Agenda May 2020 (Topic: ESSENCE Enhancements for COVID-19 Surveillance; Syndromic … Syndrome) - Recording , Slides , Agenda May 2020 (Topic: ESSENCE Enhancements for COVID-19 Surveillance; Syndromic … Syndrome) - Recording , Slides , Agenda May 2020 (Topic: ESSENCE Enhancements for COVID-19 Surveillance; Syndromic …