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  • 2018 NSSP CoP Member Satisfaction Assessment Results

    Content Type: Report

    The intent of the National Syndromic Surveillance Program Community of Practice (NSSP CoP) is to support open and dynamic participation of any… read more
    … and I greatly appreciate the tools, networking, and training opportunities it provides.” Recommendations ISDS … multiple options. • Infectious Disease (n=6) • BioSense/ESSENCE (n=6) • Data Reporting (n=6) • Injury Prevention …
  • Facilitating Cross-Sectoral Collaboration Through One Health Country-Level Work Groups

    Content Type: Case Study

    Zoonotic diseases compose a large proportion of the disease burden faced by African countries (e.g. Ebola). A One Health approach to disease control has been embraced across the continent, yet public health and veterinary surveillance systems in… read more
    … __x_ Cross-Agency Communication and Collaboration _x__ Training and Resources __x_ Technologies and Methodologies … Facilitated discussions were held at the end of each training, which resulted in CLWG members discussing … to public health practitioners lacking informatics training. The story-telling approach used in training …
  • The Performance of a NGram Classifier for Patients' Chief Complaint Based on a Computerized Pick List Entry and Free Text in an Italian Emergency Department

    Content Type: Abstract

    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
    … the 23 CC pick list categories. We used the 2005 data for training the classifiers and the 2006 data for testing the classifiers. We used an existing ESSENCE classifier for RESP as the criterion standard for …
  • NSSP’s Master Facility Table (MFT) Module Overview

    Content Type: Webinar

    Presented July 25, 2018. The NSSP team is excited to share our progress towards adding the Master Facility Table (MFT) as a module to the BioSense Platform’s Access and Management Center, or AMC. The addition of the MFT module gives you, as a… read more
    … and any associated facilities as a single entity, which ESSENCE can then display in a time-series graph.  Each … (Same C_Biosense_Facility_ID in ARCHIVE, same hospital in ESSENCE) – Discern and identify “separate doctor offices” … appears in ESSENCE (for primary facilities) – Staging ESSENCE: Facility Status = Onboarding, Active, Inactive – …
  • Sensitivity and Specificity of an Ngram Method for Classifying Emergency Department Visits into the Respiratory Syndrome in the Turkish Language

    Content Type: Abstract

    Previously we developed an “Ngram” classifier for syndromic surveillance of emergency department (ED) chief complaints (CC) in Turkish for bioterrorism. The classifier is developed from a set of ED visits for which both the ICD… read more
    … grouping of ICD10 codes chosen to be similar to the ESSENCE-CDC RESP ICD9 codes. We then used an Ngram method … AT&T Labs applied to the first 10 months of data as a training set to create a Turkish CC RESP classifier. We next …
  • Technical Challenges from the Public Health Practice Community to Statisticians and Analysts

    Content Type: Webinar

    On May 28th, 2009, the ISDS Research and Public Health Practice Committees hosted a joint panel with the goal of bringing current challenges faced by public health practitioners to the attention of the research community at large. Members of both… read more
    … how+much+staff,+which+what+training?+   Syndromic%surveillance%   Epidemiologists% … Regional Implementations n  Miami-Dade County Region (ESSENCE) n  Hillsborough County Region (STARS) n  Duval …
  • Assessing and Optimizing the Accuracy of Physician Billing Claims for Use in Automated Syndromic Surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    To assess the accuracy of community-based physician claims for identifying 5 syndromes: fever, gastrointestinal, neurological, rash, and respiratory.
    … [2] DoD-GEIS. 2003. ICD-9 code set used in ESSENCE. … E/ESSENCE.asp#ICD9 [3] CDC. 2003. Syndrome definitions for … http://www.geis.fhp.osd.mil/GEIS/SurveillanceActivities/ESSENCE/ESSENCE.asp#ICD9 …
  • How Oregon Tested its Mass Gathering Protocol and Mobilized Communities

    Content Type: Success Stories

    Mass gatherings (e.g., concerts, festivals, sporting events, political rallies, and religious gatherings) pose unique challenges to public health officials. Risks associated with large events can vary and are influenced by factors such as crowd… read more
    … and plan interventions. The guide provided reminders on ESSENCE functionality (e.g., develop queries, set up and … Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics, known as ESSENCE. All 60 eligible hospitals send ED data every day … than 3,000 persons.” 2 Oregon Health Authority. Oregon Essence: Using ESSENCE for Mass Gathering Surveillance …