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Florida Department of Health Syndromic Surveillance Identifies Unreported Cases of Zika Virus Disease, 2016–2017
Content Type: Success Stories
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 … -
Meningococcal Disease v1
Content Type: Syndrome
Query purpose: Created by the CDC National Syndromic Surveillance Program (NSSP) for use with ED data as part of the rapid reportables project, which seeks to create queries for all National Notifiable Diseases defined by the… read more… terms. These terms were formatted for querying in ESSENCE. Text analysis was conducted on the initial query to … terms. These terms were formatted for querying in ESSENCE. Text analysis was conducted on the initial query to … -
Evaluation of a Syndromic Surveillance System Based on General Practitioner's Data, SOS Medecins Bordeaux
Content Type: Abstract
To describe and evaluate the SOS Medecins Bordeaux syndromic surveillance system .… Aquitaine, Bordeaux, France, 2French Field Epidemiology Training Programme; French Institute for Public Health … -
Preliminary Findings from the BioSense Evaluation Project
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In October 2006, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention funded four institutions, including Emory University, to conduct evaluations of the BioSense surveillance system. These evaluations include investigations of situations… read more… better public communications capacity, and bene- fits of training in incident command procedures. Interviews for … -
Enhanced Surveillance Improved Timeliness and Sensitivity at the FIFA 2006 World Cup in Germany
Content Type: Abstract
Security threats and the recent emergence of avian influenza in Europe have heightened the profile of and need for a good surveillance strategy during such events. The two main rationales for enhanced infectious disease surveillance at mass events… read more… Germany 2 European Programm on Intervention Epidemiology Training (EPIET) Objective In this abstract, we describe the … -
Where are the data? Accuracy of automated EHR reporting
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Over 300 independent practices transmit monthly quality reports to a data warehouse using an automated process to summarize patient information into quality measures. All practices have implemented an EHR that captures clinical information to be… read more… Methods A total of 82 small practices received training on document- ing in the EHR to maximize performance … measures generally undercount performance. Despite train- ing, providers do not consistently document smoking … -
Evaluation of Body Temperature to Classify Influenza-Like Illness (ILI) in a Syndromic Surveillance System
Content Type: Abstract
This study aims to evaluate the sensitivity, specificity and Positive Predictive Value (PPV) of body temperature measurements > 100.5 F in relationship to laboratory confirmation of influenza and other ILI pathogens.… For each of ten codes used to profile the ILI syndrome in ESSENCE (the Department of Defense’s syndromic surveillance … -
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 …