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  • 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 žF 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

    Content Type: Abstract

    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 …
  • Utilizing Emergency Department Data to Evaluate Primary Care Clinic Hours

    Content Type: Abstract

    In addition to utilizing syndromic surveillance data to respond to public health threats and prepare for major incidents, local health departments can utilize the data to examine patient volumes in the emergency departments (EDs) of… read more
    … hours’ impact on ED use. METHODS All 2007 ED visits from ESSENCE for the urban public hospital were analyzed for …
  • Ebola 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 … or Revised Definition: Revised Definition Date Added to ESSENCE: July 2024 Definition Description: Designed to … Chief Complaint Query Validation dataset (CCQV) in ESSENCE. Development Methods: 1. The CDC team used the NNDSS …
  • Hearing Disability v1

    Content Type: Syndrome

    Query purpose: The Hearing Disability (v1) definition is part of a group of eight definitions (seven domain-specific and one overall) to identify emergency department visits by people with disabilities using a set of criteria… read more
    … to run on the “CC and DD parsed free text” field in ESSENCE. How it was developed:  The Association of State and … to run on the “CC and DD parsed free text” field in ESSENCE.  Hearing Disability ICD9 … to run on the “CC and DD parsed free text” field in ESSENCE. New or Revised Definition: New Definition Date …
  • Vision Disability v1

    Content Type: Syndrome

    Query purpose: The Vision Disability (v1) definition is part of a group of eight definitions (seven domain-specific and one overall) to identify emergency department visits by people with disabilities using a set of criteria… read more
    … to run on the “CC and DD parsed free text” field in ESSENCE. How it was developed:  The Association of State and … to run on the “CC and DD parsed free text” field in ESSENCE.  Vision Disability ICD9 … to run on the “CC and DD parsed free text” field in ESSENCE. New or Revised Definition: New Definition Date …
  • Mobility Disability v1

    Content Type: Syndrome

    Query purpose: The Mobility Disability (v1) definition is part of a group of eight definitions (seven domain-specific and one overall) to identify emergency department visits by people with disabilities using a set of criteria… read more
    … to run on the “CC and DD parsed free text” field in ESSENCE. How it was developed:  The Association of State and … to run on the “CC and DD parsed free text” field in ESSENCE.  Mobility Disability ICD9 … to run on the “CC and DD parsed free text” field in ESSENCE. New or Revised Definition: New Definition Date …
  • Comparison of Aberration Detection Algorithms for Syndromic Surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    This paper describes a study of various aberration detection algorithms currently used in syndromic surveillance and one based on artificial neural networks developed at Guelph. The goal of the research is not to select one ìwinningî algorithm but… read more
    … By applying the moving average algorithm to a set of training data, various thresholds can be tested that yield …