Infectious Disease

Uploaded on behalf of Grace Marx, MD, MPH: Bacterial Diseases Branch, Division of Vector-Borne Diseases, CDC.

This syndrome definition was created to explore tick through Syndromic data as an efficient approach to monitor the tick-borne diseases and the utility of tick bite visits to predict the seasonal peak in Lyme disease.

This was created in NSSP ESSENCE, using the Chief Complaint Query Validation (CCQV) data to ensure a broad application across different states and jurisdictions.

Uploaded on behalf of Grace Marx, MD, MPH: Bacterial Diseases Branch, Division of Vector-Borne Diseases, CDC.

This syndrome definition was created to explore Lyme disease through Syndromic data as an efficient approach to monitor the disease. 

This was created in NSSP ESSENCE, using the Chief Complaint Query Validation (CCQV) data to ensure a broad application across different states and jurisdictions.

This syndrome was designed to capture rabies PEP visits and animal bites (excluding insect, human, snake, arachnid, and fish bites).

The query is designed using ESSENCE syntax (from the query portal)

The query is designed to be run against emergency department and urgent care center data by querying the chief complaint-discharge diagnosis (CCDD) field.

The query does not include ICD-10 or SNOMED codes (we receive textual descriptions of all discharge diagnoses), but the codes could certainly be added.

• Why the syndrome was created?
  • Track food poisoning and potential disease outbreaks due to infected food 
• Syndromic surveillance system (e.g., ESSENCE, R STUDIO, RODS, etc.)
  • ESSENCE 
• Data sources the syndrome was used on (e.g., Emergency room, EMS, Air Quality, etc.)
  • Patient Location Full Details 
• Fields used to query the data (e.g., Chief Complaint, Discharge Diagnosis, Triage Notes, etc.)
  • CCandDD

• Objective: To monitor clinical encounters for gonorrhea infection and disease
• Syndromic surveillance system: ESSENCE
• Data Sources: Emergency department visits, primary and urgent care visits 
• Fields used to query the data: Chief Complaint History, Discharge Diagnosis

• Objective: To monitor clinical encounters for chlamydia infection and disease
• Syndromic surveillance system: ESSENCE
• Data Sources: Emergency department visits, primary and urgent care visits 
• Fields used to query the data: Chief Complaint History, Discharge Diagnosis

This syndrome was created to query NSSP ESSENCE on Rabies Exposure and Rabies PEP S

Syndromic Surveillance System - NSSP ESSENCE

Data source - Emergency Room Visits

Fields used - Chief Complaint History and Discharge Diagnosis History OR CCDD (an ESSENCE-concatenated field of Chief Complaint and Discharge Diagnosis)

This syndrome was created to query ESSENCE for KS ED visits potentially associated with Acute Flaccid Myelitis (AFM). Diagnosis codes were provided to KDHE by a CDC AFM contact and originally included approximately 100 codes that could encompass most presentations of AFM. This code reflects a shortened list selecting those codes deemed most likely to accurately reflect AFM.

Syndromic Surveillance System - NSSP ESSENCE

Data Source - Emergency Room Visits

Fields Used - Discharge Diagnosis History