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2003 National Syndromic Surveillance Conference Abstracts
Content Type: Abstract
Preface Effective public health surveillance is essential for detecting and responding to emerging public health threats, including terrorism and emerging infectious diseases. New surveillance methods are being developed and tested to improve the… read more -
State Opioid Overdose Surveillance Dashboards
Content Type: Surveillance Tools and Systems
Below are the publicly available opioid overdose surveillance dashboards by U.S. state or territory. This list is updated as of March 7, 2019. … read more -
Injection Drug Use - Maricopa County Department of Public Health
Content Type: Syndrome
This syndrome attempts to capture Opioid, Cocaine and Meth Injection Drug Use hospital visits. The syndrome was developed using NSSP ESSNECE and evaluated on Maricopa County emergency department and inpatient data. Fields used in ESSENCE include… read more -
Incorporating Wisconsin Syndromic Data in ILI Surveillance
Content Type: Success Stories
The 2017-2018 influenza season was the first to be classified as "high severity" across all age groups since 2003.1 Influenza-like illness (ILI) peaked at 7.5%, the highest since the 2009 pandemic.1 It was also the longest season in recent history,… read more -
ESSENCE II and the Framework for Evaluating Syndromic Surveillance Systems
Content Type: Journal Article
In response to the threat of biologic terrorism and the resurgence of virulent forms of infectious diseases, technologic advances are being applied to disease surveillance. Syndromic surveillance systems have emerged to capture and analyze health-… read more -
Language Barriers - CDC
Content Type: Syndrome
This syndrome is a work-in-progress and was created to experiment with Chief Complaint text indicating a language barrier between medical professionals and patient and/or an interpreter is needed to provide medical care. This was… read more -
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 -
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,…