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  • Opioid Abuse – Cook County Department of Public Health, 2019

    Content Type: Syndrome

    This syndrome was created to monitor emergency room visits related to opioid abuse in Suburban Cook County, IL. It is adapted from CDC’s Opioid Overdose v2 syndrome, and expanded to include terms for opioid withdrawal, injection site infections, and… read more
    … opioids. This syndrome definition was developed in ESSENCE (NSSP) and validated using manual review and … Document Opioid_Abuse_Syndrome_Definition_ESSENCE_Cook_County_2019.txt Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, … opioids. This syndrome definition was developed in ESSENCE (NSSP) and validated using manual review and …
  • Use of Severity Indicators in a Public Health Surveillance System

    Content Type: Abstract

    Data streams related to case severity have been added to the Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE), a disease-monitoring application used by the Department of Defense (DoD), as an additional… read more
    … for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE), a disease-monitoring application used by the … for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE), a disease-monitoring application used by the …
  • A Term-based Approach to Asyndromic Determination of Significant Case Clusters

    Content Type: Abstract

    Biosurveillance systems commonly depend on free-text chief complaints (CC)s for timely situational awareness. However, diagnosis codes may not be available soon enough and may have uncertain value because they are assigned for billing purposes… read more
    … patient arrival times has been implemented in versions of ESSENCE and in NCDETECT [1]. While effective for finding … patient arrival times has been implemented in versions of ESSENCE and in NCDETECT [1]. While effective for finding …
  • ED and poison center surveillance for the Great American Solar Eclipse in Oregon

    Content Type: Abstract

    Oregon’s statewide syndromic surveillance system (Oregon ESSENCE) has been operational since 2012. Non-federal emergency department data (and several of their associated urgent care centers) are the primary source for the system, although other… read more
    … Oregon’s statewide syndromic surveillance system (Oregon ESSENCE) has been operational since 2012. Non-federal … Oregon’s statewide syndromic surveillance system (Oregon ESSENCE) has been operational since 2012. Non-federal …
  • 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, …
  • A systematic approach to building and sustaining a regional and local biosurveillance community of practice

    Content Type: Abstract

    Although the advent of the ONCs "meaningful use" criteria has added significant new incentives for healthcare organizations to provide the necessary data for implementing syndromic surveillance, incentives alone are not sufficient to sustain a… read more
    … in the north central Texas region with BioSense 1 and ESSENCE over the past six years, and will describe the … in the north central Texas region with BioSense 1 and ESSENCE over the past 6 years and will describe the … in the north central Texas region with BioSense 1 and ESSENCE over the past six years, and will describe the …
  • Chronic Pain Syndrome - Kansas Board of Pharmacy

    Content Type: Syndrome

    This is a preliminary Chronic Pain-Related Syndrome, created to search relevant ICD10 and a few key terms in emergency department visits in ESSENCE. The codes and terms are specific to non-cancer related chronic pain with exclusions of… read more
    … and a few key terms in emergency department visits in ESSENCE. The codes and terms are specific to non-cancer … Pharmacy Fan.Xiong@ks.gov Document Chronic Pain Syndrome_ESSENCE syntax.txt Submitted by ZSteinKS on Fri, 05/04/2018 … and a few key terms in emergency department visits in ESSENCE. The codes and terms are specific to non-cancer …
  • A pilot project to identify individuals who died from suicide and visited an ED before death

    Content Type: Abstract

    In 2015, suicide was the 8th leading cause of death in Salt Lake County, Utah, and has recently been identified as a priority public health issue. For suicide, suicide ideation and suicide attempts surveillance, Salt Lake County Health Department… read more
    … historical trends and vital records mortality data and ESSENCE ED encounter morbidity data to monitor trends and … historical trends and vital records mortality data and ESSENCE ED encounter morbidity data to monitor trends and …