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Bordetella pertussis infection (whooping cough) has been on the rise and the most cases in the US since 1955 were reported in 2012 (48,277 or 15.4 per 100,000). Pertussis is highly infectious and can cause serious illness in infants and children as well as adults, and in general is preventable by vaccination. Since 2005, it has been recommended that anyone 19-64 years old should have a onetime booster of the pertussis vaccine (Tdap). In 2010, that recommendation was broadened stating people 65 years old and older should also obtain a booster of Tdap. Given the increased number of pertussis cases in the Western US, and that approximately 20% of these cases occurred in patients >20 years of age, we performed pertussis surveillance in Veterans in care at VA medical facilities.

Objective

To perform pertussis surveillance in VA facilities in the Western US.

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The compliance date for the ICD9-ICD10 transition is October 1, 2015. The hospitals have started the ICD9-ICD10 transition. However, not all data providers will transition the data at the same time. In order to facilitate some coherence to the data during this transition period, user interface and data processing functionalities have been developed in ESSENCE to allow usage of both classification systems simultaneously. This capability will allow users to perform ICD10- based queries across all the hospitals in their system, irrespective of the exact number of hospitals that have completed the ICD10 transition.

Objective

To help users seamlessly query and analyze data in disease surveillance systems using both ICD9 and ICD10 codes during the transition period. Additionally, the mappings between ICD9 and ICD10 codes must be flexible enough to support locally required changes based upon a user’s needs.

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This syndrome was developed to conduct surveillance for hazardous materials events in Maricopa County.  It has been included in enhanced surveillance for Mass Gathering events such as the 2017 Lost Lakes Festival and is an updated version from the version included in the 2017 NCAA Men's Division I College Basketball Championship (Final Four) enhanced surveillance.

The syndrome was developed in ESSENCE using chief complaint terms from emergency room and inpatient data.

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Biosurveillance Portal (BSP) is a web-based enterprise environment that is aimed to facilitate international collaboration, communication, and information-sharing in support of the detection, management, and mitigation of biological events in Korea. In Oct 2013, Republic of Korea (ROK) Ministry of National Defense has made the project agreement with United States (US) Department of Defense Joint Program Executive Office of Chemical and Biological Defense to develop Biosurveillance Portal which will provide tools and capabilities to facilitate timely identification and detection of biological events to minimize operational impacts on ROK-US Forces. As a part of this project, Armed Forces Medical Command (AFMC) undertook the initiative to develop the Military Active Realtime Syndromic Surveillance system.

Objective

This presentation aims to elaborate our experiences from initiating a syndromic surveillance system as a part of current biosurveillance developments in Korea. We developed Military Active Realtime Syndromic Surveillance (MARSS) system with data from all of 19 Korean military hospitals as a part of the US-ROK joint Biosurveillance Project.

Submitted by teresa.hamby@d… on

This syndrome was created to capture Kansas ED Visits with chief complaints related to carbon monoxide poisoning/exposure or similar diagnosis codes. The terms "heater" and "generator" are included to potentially capture cases of improper heater and generator use that did not receive relevant CO poisoning terms or codes.

Syndromic Surveillance System - ESSENCE

Data Source - Emergency Room Visits

Fields Used - CCDD (an ESSENCE-concatenated field of Chief Complaint and Discharge Diagnosis)

Submitted by ZSteinKS on

This syndrome was created to capture records where the "exposure to forces of nature" diagnosis codes are sent, excluding Heat/Sunlight codes. The original syndrome captured all weather-related events that are explicitly stated and diagnosed, but the majority of these cases were sunburns and heat stroke. The original syndrome is also uploaded, but this syndrome will serve similar purposes as the original while excluding Heat/Sunlight cases when these are not of interest.

Syndromic Surveillance System - ESSENCE

Data Source - Emergency Room Visits

Submitted by ZSteinKS on

This syndrome was created to capture cases where the "exposure to forces of nature" diagnosis codes are sent. This was created as a starting place for weather surveillance and should capture all weather-related events that are explicitly stated and diagnosed. Please note that if your region receives a lot of sun, the primary case counts in this syndrome definition will be sunburns. KDHE has uploaded a second similar syndrome that excludes these cases.

Syndromic Surveillance System - ESSENCE

Data Source - Emergency Room Visits

Submitted by ZSteinKS on

This syndrome was created as a way to monitor Frostbite, Cold Exposure, & Hypothermia in Kansas Emergency Department visits. **Please note that the hypothermia portion of this syndrome was created to ONLY include hypothermia associated with low environmental temperature.

Syndromic Surveillance System - NSSP ESSENCE

Data sources - Emergency Room Visits

Fields Used - CCDD (an ESSENCE-concatenated field of Chief Complaint and Discharge Diagnosis)

Submitted by ZSteinKS on

This syndrome was created to query NSSP ESSENCE for KS ED visits related to fireworks, particularly around the United States Independence Day holiday. Legality and slang for firework injuries will vary by region and some terms in this query are fairly region-specific.

Syndromic Surveillance System - NSSP ESSENCE

Data Source - Emergency Room Visits

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

Submitted by ZSteinKS on
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