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  • School-Related Visits - CSTE Environmental Health in School Workgroup

    Content Type: Syndrome

    Most children spend a significant portion of their time in daycare or at school. CSTE's Environmental Health in School workgroup identified these days/hours as a setting for possible "occupational" exposures. The CSTE EH in School Workgroup created… read more
    … "school-related" emergency department (ED) visits using ESSENCE. Search Terms: “in school” or “at school” “in … they don’t explicitly state they are “not in/at daycare” ESSENCE Syntax: ^[ia][nt] school^,or,^[ia][nt] … “school- related” emergency department (ED) visits using ESSENCE. 3 Query Search Terms: “in school” or “at school” …
  • Opioid Diagnosis Codes - Adapted from the HCUP Definition - Kansas Department of Health and Environment

    Content Type: Syndrome

    This syndrome was created as a way to integrate the H-CUP Opioid-Related Hospital Use definition into ESSENCE. H-CUP is the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project and we believe their Opioid-Related Hospital Use definition is a great starting point… read more
    … the H-CUP Opioid-Related Hospital Use definition into ESSENCE. H-CUP is the Healthcare Cost and Utilization … Syndromic Surveillance System - ESSENCE Data Source - Emergency Room Visits Fields Used - … the H-CUP Opioid-Related Hospital Use definition into ESSENCE. H-CUP is the Healthcare Cost and Utilization …
  • Rabies Exposure and PEP - Kansas Department of Health and Environment

    Content Type: Syndrome

    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… read more
    … 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 - … History and Discharge Diagnosis History OR CCDD (an ESSENCE-concatenated field of Chief Complaint and Discharge …
  • 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
    … hospital visits. The syndrome was developed using NSSP ESSNECE and evaluated on Maricopa County emergency department and inpatient data. Fields used in ESSENCE include Admit Reason Combo, Cheif Complaint History … emergency department and inpatient data. Fields used in ESSENCE include Admit Reason Combo, Cheif Complaint History …
  • Framework for the Development of Response Protocols for Public Health Syndromic Surveillance Systems

    Content Type: Abstract

    Although syndromic surveillance cannot serve its intended purpose without the timely public health response launched after aberration detection, the literature is very limited with respect to response to syndromic surveillance… read more
    … protocols was based on experience with a single system, ESSENCE, and concluded that careful development of an … protocols was based on ex- perience with a single system, ESSENCE, and con- cluded that careful development of an … protocols was based on experience with a single system, ESSENCE, and concluded that careful development of an …
  • Diagnosis Coding Anomalies Resulting in Hemorrhagic Illness Alerts in Veterans Health Administration Outpatient Clinics

    Content Type: Abstract

    The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) operates over 880 outpatient clinics across the nation. The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory’s Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE) utilizes… read more
    … for the Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE) utilizes VHA ICD9 coded outpatient visit data for … The hemorrhagic illness (HI) syndrome category in ESSENCE is comprised of 25 different ICD9 codes, including … Group1, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, ESSENCE Group2 OBJECTIVE We sought to evaluate the …
  • Survey of Syndromic Surveillance Uses

    Content Type: Abstract

    Syndromic surveillance is the surveillance of healthrelated data that precedes diagnosis to detect a disease outbreak or other health related event that warrants a public health response. Though syndromic surveillance is… read more
    … for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE) which it has deployed in partnership with the … information including data from Biosense and ESSENCE. The University of Pittsburgh has also developed a … information including data from Biosense and ESSENCE. The University of Pittsburgh has also developed a …
  • Two Unique Syndromic Surveillance Systems: State and Federal Collaboration to Identify Spike in “Visits of Interest”

    Content Type: Success Stories

    The New Jersey Department of Health (NJDOH) uses Health Monitoring Systems’ EpiCenter to collect, manage, and analyze real-time emergency department (ED) data acquired from acute care hospitals and satellite EDs. NJDOH integrates these data into a… read more
    … for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE). ESSENCE is an application housed on the NSSP … closed. To identify the origin of the spike detected by ESSENCE, the NJDOH staff searched local news reports for … for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE). ESSENCE is an application housed on the NSSP …