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  • Emergency Department Chief Complaint Versus Discharge Diagnosis for Tracking Disease Measures

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    ESSENCE is a web-based syndromic surveillance system utilized by DHMH to detect and track outbreaks, suspicious patterns of illness, public health emergencies, and biological threats. ESSENCE ED chief complaint data is collected daily from 47… read more
    … ESSENCE is a web-based syndromic surveillance system … public health emergencies, and biological threats. ESSENCE ED chief complaint data is collected daily from 47 …
  • Jurisdictional Etiquette Workgroup: An offshoot of a Syndromic Surveillance Consortium

    Content Type: Abstract

    Syndromic data is shifting the way surveillance has been done traditionally. Most recently, surveillance has gone beyond city limits and county boundary lines. In southeast Texas, a regional consortium of public health agencies and stakeholders in… read more
    … and stakeholders in the 13-County area governs the local ESSENCE system. The Houston Health Department, (HHD) is responsible for deploying ESSENCE to the entire region. To effectively monitor the …
  • Approach to Onboarding Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Data Into a Syndromic Surveillance System

    Content Type: Abstract

    Syndromic surveillance has become an integral component of public health surveillance efforts within the state of Florida. The near real-time nature of these data are critical during events such as the Zika virus outbreak in Florida in 2016 and in… read more
    … typically utilize emergency department (ED) visit data, ESSENCE-FL also includes data from non-traditional sources: … in order to address public health needs. Currently, the ESSENCE-FL team is actively working to incorporate EMS data …
  • Missouri Emergency Department Visits for Carbon Monoxide Poisoning

    Content Type: Abstract

    CO poisoning poses a significant public health burden. It is preventable, yet it remains a leading cause of poisoning in the United States. An effective surveillance system is very important for targeting and monitoring CO poisoning.Methods or… read more
    … for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE). The ED chief complaints of CO poisoning in ESSENCE contain keywords such as 'carbon' or 'monoxide'. The …
  • 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 …
  • Utility of a Syndromic Surveillance System to Identify Disease Outbreaks with Reportable Disease Data

    Content Type: Abstract

    In light of recent communicable disease outbreaks, the ability of Florida Department of HealthÕs (FDOH) syndromic surveillance system, ESSENCE-FL, to identify emergent disease outbreaks using reportable disease data and algorithms originally… read more
    … of HealthÕs (FDOH) syndromic surveillance system, ESSENCE-FL, to identify emergent disease outbreaks using … and the de-identified case data are sent hourly to ESSENCE-FL. These data are then available for ad hoc …
  • Drowning and Submersion - CDC

    Content Type: Syndrome

    A step-wise article on developing this syndrome definition can be found in the April 2019 NSSP Update https://www.cdc.gov/nssp/news.html This syndrome is an initial attempt at an improved Drowning and Submersion query in NSSP ESSENCE. It was… read more
    … at an improved Drowning and Submersion query in NSSP ESSENCE. It was developed starting with the existing ESSENCE …
  • Tick Related Encounters - Connecticut Department of Public Health, April 2019

    Content Type: Syndrome

    • Why the syndrome was created? This syndrome was created to monitor tick related emergency room visits using regular expressions in R. 
    • Syndromic surveillance system (e.g., ESSENCE, R STUDIO,…
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    … expressions in R.  Syndromic surveillance system (e.g., ESSENCE, R STUDIO, RODS, etc.)  Data collected from … expressions in R.  Syndromic surveillance system (e.g., ESSENCE, R STUDIO, RODS, etc.)  Data collected from …