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  • Content Type: Abstract

    This panel member consultation is an International Society of Disease Surveillance (ISDS) sponsored project. It involved expert personnel in their respective area to address specific, priority questions confronting researchers, developers, and… read more
    … with the “core” syndromic surveillance system (i.e. Essence, BioSense, etc.), and applying/analyzing several …
  • Content Type: Abstract

    Varied approaches have been used by syndromic surveillance systems for aberration detection. However, the performance of these methods has been evaluated only across a small range of epidemic characteristics.   Objective… read more
    … Weighted Moving Average (EWMA) algorithms used by the ESSENCE system [3], with smoothing constants of 0.4 and 0.9; …
  • Content Type: Abstract

    By capturing the spatio-temporal organization of the data using a graph, GraphScan avoids the challenges associated with trying to “fit” incoming data into moving windows of predefined shapes and sizes. Whereas the popular space-time permutation… read more
    … developed that handles data on a day- by-day basis. In essence, the program consists of two major components: The …
  • Content Type: Abstract

    Current influenza-like illness (ILI) monitoring in Idaho is based on syndromic surveillance using laboratory data, combined with periodic person-to-person reports collected by Idaho state workers. This system relies on voluntary … read more
    … 2010. References 1 Lombardo JS, Burkom H, Pavlin J. II ESSENCE and the framework for evaluating syndromic …
  • Content Type: Success Stories

    Wisconsin experienced severe flooding from August 17 to September 20, 2018. This flood caused an estimated $232 million in damage and affected 21 counties. Floods can have negative health impacts on a population, such as increased skin infections,… read more
    … used the Early Notification of Community based Epidemics (ESSENCE), a tool within BioSense, to track flood-related … disasters and disease outbreaks are being set up through ESSENCE. There is an effort to get more DHS employees signed … available (not yet explored) • Syndromic Surveillance – ESSENCE – Updated nightly – Rapid surveillance option …
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    Syndromic surveillance of emergency department (ED) visit data is often based on computer algorithms which assign patient chief complaints (CC) and ICD code data to syndromes. The triage nurse note (NN) has also been used for… read more
    … data for testing the classifiers. We used an existing ESSENCE classifier for RESP as the criterion standard for …
  • Content Type: Syndrome

    Query purpose: To assist state, local, tribal, territorial, and federal public health practitioners in trend monitoring for long COVID (also commonly described as Post-COVID Complications (PCC) or long-haul COVID) related… 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 …
  • Content Type: Success Stories

    Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Texas on August 25, 2017, resulting in 88 fatalities and more than $125 billion in damages to infrastructure. In Houston, flooding created a toxic mix of chemicals, sewage, biohazards, and 8 million cubic yards of… read more
    … and Services Program (GRASP); NSSP BioSense Platform ESSENCE Texas County-level Disaster Declarations Hurricane …