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  • Improving Local Non-Communicable Disease Surveillance within a Changing Data Environment

    Content Type: Abstract

    LHDs are operating in a changing data environment. As household telephone use declines, national surveys are not sampling large enough populations to report representative local health statistics. As a result, reliable indicators from surveys such… read more
    … for LHDs is that they may not have the knowledge, training, or technical assistance needed to fully utilize NC … for LHDs is that they may not have the knowledge, training, or technical assistance needed to fully utilize NC …
  • Acute Flaccid Myelitis Diagnosis Codes - Kansas Department of Health and Environment

    Content Type: Syndrome

    This syndrome was created to query ESSENCE for KS ED visits potentially associated with Acute Flaccid Myelitis (AFM). Diagnosis codes were provided to KDHE by a CDC AFM contact and originally included approximately 100 codes that could encompass… read more
    … This syndrome was created to query ESSENCE for KS ED visits potentially associated with Acute … reflect AFM. Syndromic Surveillance System - NSSP ESSENCE Data Source - Emergency Room Visits Fields Used - …
  • Approach to Onboarding Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Data Into a Syndromic Surveillance System

    Content Type: Abstract

    Syndromic surveillance has become an integral component of public health surveillance efforts within the state of Florida. The near real-time nature of these data are critical during events such as the Zika virus outbreak in Florida in 2016 and in… read more
    … typically utilize emergency department (ED) visit data, ESSENCE-FL also includes data from non-traditional sources: … in order to address public health needs. Currently, the ESSENCE-FL team is actively working to incorporate EMS data …
  • Opioid Surveillance Webinar Series #1: Rapid surveillance of overdose morbidity - Developing case definitions, building queries, and analyzing results

    Content Type: Webinar

    This is the first installment of the ISDS Opioid Surveillance Webinar Series, June - July, 2017. Click here for Part 2 of… read more
    … drug, opioid, and heroin within and outside of the NSSP/ESSENCE system. The presenters also share lessons learned … and bold) CategoryCategoryCategoryCategory Query terms (ESSENCE Syntax)Query terms (ESSENCE Syntax)Query terms …
  • Carbon Monoxide Exposure - Kansas Department of Health and Environment

    Content Type: Syndrome

    This syndrome was created to capture Kansas ED Visits with chief complaints related to carbon monoxide poisoning/exposure or similar diagnosis codes. The terms "heater" and "generator" are included to potentially capture cases of improper heater and… read more
    … poisoning terms or codes. Syndromic Surveillance System - ESSENCE Data Source - Emergency Room Visits Fields Used - CCDD (an ESSENCE-concatenated field of Chief Complaint and Discharge …
  • Capacity and Needs Assessment for Establishing a Syndromic Surveillance System in Rural China: A Mixed Study

    Content Type: Abstract

    Syndromic surveillance has great advantages in promoting the early detection of infectious disease outbreak and enabling the real-time tracking of on-going epidemics. However, establishing a syndromic surveillance system required huge investment in… read more
    … system, so as to design customized capacity building and training strategies. Submitted by knowledge_repo… on Wed, … system, so as to design customized capacity building and training strategies. … Capacity and Needs Assessment for …
  • Lyme Disease - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

    Content Type: Syndrome

    Uploaded on behalf of Grace Marx, MD, MPH: Bacterial Diseases Branch, Division of Vector-Borne Diseases, CDC.   This syndrome definition was created to explore Lyme disease through Syndromic data as an efficient approach to monitor the… read more
    … to monitor the disease.  This was created in NSSP ESSENCE, using the Chief Complaint Query Validation (CCQV) … to monitor the disease.  This was created in NSSP ESSENCE, using the Chief Complaint Query Validation (CCQV) …
  • Can Syndromic Surveillance Data be Useful for Monitoring Respiratory Illness Activity?

    Content Type: Abstract

    A significant amount of resources and effort have been recently invested in syndromic surveillance systems. However, how these systems complement or compare with traditional public health surveillance systems, such as outbreak reporting, is not… read more
    … for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE) syndromic surveillance system to monitor … for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE) syndromic surveillance system to monitor …