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  • Syndromic Surveillance Signal Investigation in Los Angeles County

    Content Type: Abstract

    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 …
  • Enhanced State Opioid Overdose Surveillance (ESOOS) Program Overview

    Content Type: Presentation Slides

    These slides were presented at the Enhanced State Opioid Overdose Surveillance (ESOOS) Program Overview Partner meeting, led by CDC and organized by ASTHO in March of 2019.  Presenters Puja Seth, PhD – Lead, Epidemiology… read more
    … ED collection Case-level or aggregate data shared through ESSENCE or directly with NCIPC Discharge/Billing Data … Leverage existing state and national resources (BioSense/ESSENCE) ▪ Action at local and national level – Improve more …
  • Access to and use of syndromic surveillance information at the local health department level

    Content Type: Abstract

    Syndromic surveillance data have been widely shown to be useful to large health departments. Use at smaller local health departments (LHDs) has rarely been described, and the effectiveness of various methods of delivering syndromic… read more
    … of syndromic surveillance data, as well as provision of training, may increase use of this information at the local …
  • CDC Pedestrian Motor Vehicle Traffic Injury v1

    Content Type: Syndrome

    Query purpose: The purpose of the CDC Pedestrian Motor Vehicle Traffic Injury v1 syndrome definition is to assist with detection of initial emergency department (ED) visits among pedestrians unintentionally injured on public… read more
    … Chief complaint keywords: First, the team used the ESSENCE text analysis function to generate common words used … is received. New or Revised Definition: New Date Added to ESSENCE: October 18, 2023 Definition Description: The CDC …
  • KS Onboarding Presentation

    Content Type: Presentation Slides

    These slides provide an overview of the onboarding process for jurisdictions in Kansas supplying data for BioSense. This presentation emphasizes steps needed to improve data quality.
    …   % Visits   Direct   15   13%   KHIN   6   2%   ESSENCE   -   0%   Total   21   15%   Note: “%Visits” based …   15   13%     19   45%   KHIN   6   2%     40   22%   ESSENCE   -   0%     3   6%   Total   21   15%     62   72% …
  • Expanding a Gazetteer-based Approach for Geo-Parsing Text from Media Reports on Global Disease Outbreaks

    Content Type: Abstract

    HealthMap (www.healthmap.org) is a freely accessible, automated real-time system that monitors, organizes, integrates, filters, and maps online news about emerging diseases. The system performs geographic parsing (“geo-parsing”) of disease… read more
    … outbreaks, retrieved by HealthMap in 2007, is used as the training dataset. The words in the articles are tagged with … The experiments also reveal that providing additional training material improves the performance of the model, …
  • Executive Summary of the ISDS DTRA Consultancy Project 2014-2017

    Content Type: Report

    The International Society for Disease Surveillance (ISDS) fills the need for a practical forum and coordinating mechanism for collaboration among subject matter experts (SMEs) from stakeholder groups that may normally not interact but who, when… read more
    … analytics. Connecting public health staff with additional training in data analytics will strengthen public health … generated great discussion was the lack of opportunity to train existing health department staff in data analytics and … identified public health practice/tool and to identify training opportunities in data analysis for public health …
  • GraphScan: Detection and Analysis of Free-Form Spatio-Temporal Patterns

    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 …