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  • Assessing Best Practices for Grouping and Analyzing Urgent Care Center (UCC) and Emergency Department (ED) Data Sources within Syndromic Surveillance Systems

    Content Type: Abstract

    The Florida Department of Health (FDOH) electronically receives both urgent care center (UCC) data and hospital emergency department (ED) data from health care facilities in 43 of its 67 counties through its Electronic Surveillance System for the… read more
    … for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE-FL). Each submitted record is assigned to one of eleven ESSENCE Syndrome categories based on parsing of chief …
  • Syndromic Surveillance Evaluation of Influenza Activity in At-Risk Sub-Populations

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    Near real-time emergency department chief complaint data is accessed through Florida’s syndromic surveillance system: Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Communitybased Epidemics-Florida (ESSENCE-FL). The Florida Department… read more
    … Early Notification of Communitybased Epidemics-Florida (ESSENCE-FL). The Florida Department of Health relies heavily … the complete AHCA hospital discharge data to the ESSENCE-FL ILI syndrome and Influenza sub-syndrome) have …
  • Characterizing Fentanyl-Associated Mortality using the Literal Causes of Death

    Content Type: Abstract

    In October 2015, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released health advisory #384 to inform people about increases in fentanyl fatalities. Florida’s statewide syndromic surveillance system, Electronic Surveillance System for the… read more
    … for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE-FL), captures electronic death record data in near … of death and detail the factors that led to the death. ESSENCE-FL has the benefit of not only receiving death …
  • Utilizing Syndromic Surveillance for Hurricane Irma-Related CO Poisonings in Florida

    Content Type: Abstract

    On September 10, 2017, Hurricane Irma made landfall in Florida. Over 90% of Florida counties reported power outages as of September 11. During power outages, CO poisonings often occur due to indoor use of fuel combustion sources (e.g., cooking,… read more
    … for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE-FL) to find cases of CO poisoning. ESSENCE-FL provides access to ED data from 98% (255 out of …
  • Using Syndromic Surveillance to Rapidly Describe the Early Epidemiology of Flakka Use in Florida, June 2014 – August 2015

    Content Type: Abstract

    Syndromic surveillance has historically been used to track infectious disease, but in recent years, many jurisdictions have utilized the systems to conduct all hazards surveillance and provide situational awareness with respect to previously… read more
    … understand the epidemiology and context of this problem. ESSENCE-FL is a large syndromic surveillance system, with … for the Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE-FL)   Submitted by Magou on Mon, 09/25/2017 - 14:49 …
  • Rabies and Animal Bites - Florida Department of Health

    Content Type: Syndrome

    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… read more
    … arachnid, and fish bites). The query is designed using ESSENCE syntax (from the query portal) The query is designed … arachnid, and fish bites). The query is designed using ESSENCE syntax (from the query portal) The query is designed …
  • Monitoring Respiratory Syncytial Virus Regionally In Children Aged < 5 Years Old Using Emergency Department and Urgent Care Center Chief Complaint Data in Florida’s Syndromic Surveillance System, Week 1, 2010 - Week 32, 2014

    Content Type: Abstract

    National studies estimate that respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is responsible for one in 38 emergency department (ED) visits for children < 5 years old. The Council for State and Territorial Epidemiologists position statement (13-ID-07): “RSV-… read more
    … for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics [ESSENCE-FL]) was capable of monitoring Florida’s statewide … RSV seasonality. This analysis aims to determine if ESSENCE-FL can also be used to describe RSV and …
  • Increased Seizure Activity in Florida Associated with Hurricane Irma, September 2017

    Content Type: Abstract

    On September 10, 2017, Irma made landfall in the Florida Keys as a Category 4 hurricane and subsequently tracked up the west side of the state. Due to the size of the storm, it impacted nearly all of Florida. The Electronic Surveillance System for… read more
    … for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE-FL), the state’s syndromic surveillance system, … for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE-FL), the state’s syndromic surveillance system, …