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  • Better, Stronger, Faster: Making the Case for Adding Data Fields to Syndromic Surveillance, NJ 2015

    Content Type: Case Study

    NJDOH created a custom classification in EpiCenter to detect synthetic cannabinoid-related ED visits using chief complaint data. DOH staff included the keywords black magic, black mamba, cloud 9, cloud 10,incense, k2, legal high, pot potpourri,… read more
    … in EpiCenter to detect synthetic cannabinoid-related ED visits using chief complaint data. DOH staff included the … classification for NJ synthetic cannabinoid-related ED visits before NJPIES' inquiry. NJDOH staff successfully … in EpiCenter to detect synthetic cannabinoid-related ED visits using chief complaint data. DOH staff included the …
  • Promoting the One Health Approach to prevent wildlife-borne zoonotic diseases in Bolivia – Yellow fever outbreak case study

    Content Type: Case Study

    Immediate detection and response to zoonotic disease outbreaks in animals are valuable strategies to prevent infections in humans. Detection and early warning of wildlife-borne pathogens are often limited by the lack of sensitized observers,… read more
    … Ecology – Major University of San Andres COUNTRY: Bolivia Email: ealandia.vet@gmail.com WHAT DOMAIN(S) DO YOU WORK IN? ___ Human health …
  • Improvement of Epidemiology Business Processes through the Evolution of Biosurveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    In the last decade, the scope of public health (PH) surveillance has grown, and biosurveillance capacity has expanded in Duval County. In 2004, the Duval County Health Department (DCHD) implemented a standalone syndromic surveillance (SS) system… read more
    … ad hoc ED surveillance was compared between ESSENCE and e-mail/telephone methods. QI reviews were compared between … Emerg Health Threats J 2011;4(Suppl 1). *Taj Azarian E-mail: tajazari@gmail.com (page number not for citation purpose) �ISDS 2011 …
  • Investigating Other Syndrome in ESSENCE from a Data Quality Perspective

    Content Type: Abstract

    The Louisiana Office of Public Health (OPH) Infectious Disease Epidemiology Section (IDEpi) conducts syndromic surveillance of Emergency Department (ED) visits through the Louisiana Early Event Detection System (LEEDS) and submits the collected data… read more
    … syndromic surveillance of Emergency Department (ED) visits through the Louisiana Early Event Detection System … complaint, admit reason, and/or diagnosis fields to tag visits to relevant syndromes. Visits that do not have … syndromic surveillance of Emergency Department (ED) visits through the Louisiana Early Event Detection System …
  • Drowning and Submersion - CDC

    Content Type: Syndrome

    A step-wise article on developing this syndrome definition can be found in the April 2019 NSSP Update https://www.cdc.gov/nssp/news.html This syndrome is an initial attempt at an improved Drowning and Submersion query in NSSP ESSENCE. It was… read more
    … into the winter months with a baseline of around 50 visits per week. This trend show some consistency across HHS … of CCQV data (Jan–Nov 2018) were randomly selected and visits manually reviewed. We selected MMWR weeks 1, 13, 17, 19, 27, and 32, and visits for the 6 weeks totaled 1,205. Of these visits, 1,156 …
  • A review of automated text classification in event-based biosurveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    Event-based biosurveillance is a practice of monitoring diverse information sources for the detection of events pertaining to human, plant, and animal health. Online documents, such as news articles, newsletters, and (micro-) blog entries, are… read more
    … A H1N1 pandemic. PLoS One. 2011;6:e19467. *Manabu Torii E-mail: manabu.torii@gmail.com (page number not for citation purpose) Table 1. …
  • Establishment of Public-access Syndromic Surveillance System in Taipei City, Taiwan

    Content Type: Abstract

    Taiwan had established a nation-wide emergency department (ED)-based syndromic surveillance system since 2004, with a mean detection sensitivity of 0.67 in 2004-06 [1]. However, this system may not represent the true epidemic situation of infectious… read more
    … BMC Public Health. 2011;11:252. *ChiaKun Chang E-mail: jasperc8@gmail.com (page number not for citation purpose) Fig. 1. (a) …
  • Evaluating Syndrome Definitions in the Extended Syndromic Surveillance Ontology

    Content Type: Abstract

    The Extended Syndromic Surveillance Ontology (ESSO) is an open source terminological ontology designed to facilitate the text mining of clinical reports in English [1,2]. At the core of ESSO are 279 clinical concepts (for example, fever, confusion,… read more
    … J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2010;17:595�601. *Mike Conway E-mail: michaelambroseconway@gmail.com (page number not for citation purpose) Table 1. …