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  • A Biosurveillance-driven Home Score to Guide Strep Pharyngitis Treatment

    Content Type: Abstract

    GAS pharyngitis affects hundreds of millions of individuals globally each year, and over 12 million seek care in the United States annually for sore throat. Clinicians cannot differentiate GAS from other causes of acute pharyngitis based on the… read more
    … identify very-low risk patients prior to an ambulatory visit could reduce low-yield, unnecessary visits for a most common outpatient condition. We recently … A streptococcal (GAS) pharyngitis before a health care visit based only on history and real-time local …
  • Comparing and Contrasting Two ESSENCE Syndrome Definition Query Methods

    Content Type: Abstract

    The Kansas Syndromic Surveillance Program (KSSP) utilizes the ESSENCE v.1.20 program provided by the National Syndromic Surveillance Program to view and analyze Kansas Emergency Department (ED) data. Methods that allow an ESSENCE user to query both… read more
    … consists of the last non-null value for that patient visit ID and the chief complaint parsed is the first non-null chief complaint value for that patient visit ID that is parsed by the ESSENCE platform. For this … of all chief complaint values related to a singular ED visit, and Discharge Diagnosis History is the same concept, …
  • Towards Estimating Childhood Obesity Prevalence Using Electronic Health Records

    Content Type: Abstract

    Although recent data suggests childhood obesity prevalence has stabilized, an estimated 1 in 3 U.S. children are overweight or obese.1 Further, there is variation by racial and ethnic groups, location, age, and poverty2, resulting in a need for… read more
    … to the population. Additionally, the type of clinical visit (e.g., wellness vs. acute) may affect the prevalence … may be additional selection biases based on the type of visit and whether height and weight was measured and … The current work sought to quantify the effect of visit type on childhood overweight and obesity prevalence …
  • BioSense 2.0 Webinar: Data Flow

    Content Type: Webinar

    Presenters Mike Alletto and Nabarun Dasgupta will describe the process of how data are received, processed and brought forward to the front-end application in BioSense v2.0. Their presentation will include a technical overview of all of the steps… read more
    … and loading data to the BioSense application. Compare visit-level records on the front-end application with … "  Consolidate(records(into(visits( "  Identify(syndromes(and(subsyndromes( !  … then$the$visit$is$counted$but$no$syndrome$is$listed.$ … and loading data to the BioSense application. Compare visit-level records on the front-end application with …
  • Utilizing syndromic surveillance systems for climate-related outcomes

    Content Type: Webinar

    Adverse health effects related to climate change are currently being seen, and these adverse outcomes are likely to increase in the future. Syndromic surveillance systems can provide near-real time information which may be used for situational… read more
    … such as triage notes or diagnostic data at time of visit (e.g. blood pressure), which can also be used for … the US collect at the minimum Emergency department or ED visits. Collected fields my include pre-admission data such … For ESSENCE a subtotal of ≥6 points are required for a visit to be captured. Keywords Identify based on another …
  • Finding Chances to Intervene Before the Fatal Overdose: Linking ED and Mortality Data

    Content Type: Abstract

    In 2017, 951 Missouri residents died from an opioid overdose, a record number for the state.1 This continues the trend from 2016, which saw an increase of over 30% in opioid overdose deaths compared to 2015. The Missouri Department of Health and… read more
    … data, diagnoses codes, procedures codes, and other visit information. Records can have up to 23 diagnosis … The first diagnosis field is the primary reason for a visit. Objective: Link emergency department (ED) with death … data, diagnoses codes, procedures codes, and other visit information. Records can have up to 23 diagnosis …
  • Optimization of Linkage between North Carolina EMS and ED Data: EMS Naloxone Cases

    Content Type: Abstract

    The opioid overdose crisis has rapidly expanded in North Carolina (NC), paralleling the epidemic across the United States. The number of opioid overdose deaths in NC has increased by nearly 40% each year since 2015.1 Critical to preventing overdose… read more
    … with naloxone administration to the corresponding ED visit assists in understanding the health outcomes of these … administration in 2017 were successfully linked to an ED visit record. This study explored methods to improve EMS and … with naloxone administration to the corresponding ED visit assists in understanding the health outcomes of these …
  • CDC Opioid v2

    Content Type: Syndrome

    THE KNOWLEDGE REPOSITORY HAS BEEN UPDATED TO INCLUDE CDC OPIOID V3 - THE UPDATED SYNDROME DEFINITION CAN BE FOUND HERE. States currently funded by… read more
    … some lessons learned in querying opioid overdose ED visits in syndromic surveillance systems. Based on this … indicating an opioid poisoning is present, the ED visit is automatically included in the syndrome. If there is … diagnosis code/SNOMED present for opioid poisoning, the visit is only included if the chief complaint text has both …