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  • Surveillance of Heat-related Morbidity: Relation to Heat-related Excess Mortality

    Content Type: Abstract

    The impact of heat on mortality is well documented but deaths tend to lag extreme heat and mortality data is generally not available for timely surveillance during heat waves. Recently, systems for near-real time surveillance of heat illness… read more
    … of heat-related ambulance calls and emergency department visits and excess natural cause mortality in New York City. … of heat-related ambulance calls and emergency department visits and excess natural cause mortality in New York City. …
  • Biosense and Violence: Progress Toward Violence Prevention Using Syndromic Surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    Violence is now clearly recognized as a public health problem. Intentional injuries ranked among the top six leading causes of death for Illinois residents aged 1-44 in 2013. The Illinois Department of Public Health currently collects data on… read more
    … real-time data on violence-related emergency department visits that would increase the timeliness and quality of … real-time data on violence-related emergency department visits that would increase the timeliness and quality of …
  • All Traffic Related, Washington State Department of Health, 2018

    Content Type: Syndrome

    Objective: Capture all traffic-related injuries presenting to the emergency room regardless of intent or vehicle type to allow monitoring of long-term trends in traffic-related injuries as well as short-term aberrations due to holiday, events,… read more
    … System: ESSENCE Data sources: Emergency Department Visits Fields queried: SubSyndrome Free Text, Chief … System: ESSENCE Data sources: Emergency Department Visits Fields queried: SubSyndrome Free Text, Chief …
  • Opioid Diagnosis Codes - Adapted from the HCUP Definition - Kansas Department of Health and Environment

    Content Type: Syndrome

    This syndrome was created as a way to integrate the H-CUP Opioid-Related Hospital Use definition into ESSENCE. H-CUP is the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project and we believe their Opioid-Related Hospital Use definition is a great starting point… read more
    … System - ESSENCE Data Source - Emergency Room Visits Fields Used - Discharge Diagnosis History T40.0X1 OR … System - ESSENCE Data Source - Emergency Room Visits Fields Used - Discharge Diagnosis History …
  • Extreme Weather Surveillance

    Content Type: Use Case

    Problem Summary Given the background of climate change, there is an increasing demand for public health to characterize weather-related illness. The public health impact of extreme heat or cold events can be characterized from Emergency… read more
    … by Knowlton looked specifically at emergency department visits during the 2006 California heat wave and found a significant increase in ED visits but not hospitalizations. Stratifying by region, age … and nephritis. Patterns that were distinct for ED visits included electrolyte imbalance in the youngest age …
  • Utility of 911 Ambulance Dispatch Data for the Syndromic Surveillance of Heat-Related Illness in Toronto, Ontario, 2002-2005

    Content Type: Abstract

    Although the majority of work in syndromic surveillance has been its application to bioterrorism and infectious diseases, one of the emerging priorities for its use is for the monitoring of environmental health conditions. Heat-… read more
    … in over 700 excess deaths and 33,000 emergency room visits due to HRI. A syndromic surveillance system that is … in over 700 excess deaths and 33,000 emergency room visits due to HRI [2]. A syndromic surveillance system that … in over 700 excess deaths and 33,000 emergency room visits due to HRI. A syndromic surveillance system that is …
  • Can all-cause school absenteeism be used to optimize the timing of school closure in response to pandemic influenza?

    Content Type: Abstract

    School closure has long been proposed as a non-pharmaceutical intervention in reducing the transmission of pandemic influenza. Children are thought to have high transmission potential because of their low immunity to circulating… read more
    … data on the rate of influenza-related nurse visits in corresponding schools to validate our findings.   … using data on the rate of influenza-related nurse visits in corresponding schools to validate our findings. … the daily count of all-cause absenteeism and school nurse visits for fever/flu syndrome in 1206 public schools in New …
  • Analysis of Syndrome Definitions for Gastrointestinal Illness with ICD9 Codes for Gastroenteritis during the 2006-07 Norovirus Season in Boston

    Content Type: Abstract

    We report on a retrospective analysis of gastrointestinal syndrome definitions based on chief complaints and ICD9 diagnosis for gastroenteritis during the 2006-07 season of increased norovirus activity.
    … system receives daily, de- identified patient-visit data from 10 hospital emer- gency departments (EDs) in the city of Boston. For each patient-visit, data collected includes date of visit, chief … are analyzed for statistical aberrations in the number of visits using the Early Aberration Reporting System (EARSv3). …