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Syndromic Surveillance of Non-traumatic Dental Conditions in Idaho Core Areas
Content Type: Success Stories
Access to dental care is a public health problem in Idaho because most of the state is experiencing a shortage of dental health professionals. The Idaho Oral Health program has anecdotal evidence that some Idahoans compensate for this shortage by… read more… activity began in spring 2017 with the development of an ESSENCE* query to identify non-traumatic dental care visits. … activity began in spring 2017 with the development of an ESSENCE* query to identify non-traumatic dental care visits. … -
Public health surveillance after the Haiti earthquake: the Florida experience
Content Type: Abstract
On 12 January 2010 at 1652 hours local time, an earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale struck near the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince and created enormous devastation. Florida, as the state closest to Haiti, became an initial focal point… read more… for the Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE). On 15 January 15 2010, the Florida Department of … of Epidemiology, requested that hospitals reporting to ESSENCE add the word ‘Haiti’ to chief complaints of visits … -
Implementation and Comparison of Preprocessing Methods for Biosurveillance Data
Content Type: Abstract
Modern biosurveillance relies on multiple sources of both prediagnostic and diagnostic data, updated daily, to discover disease outbreaks. Intrinsic to this effort are two assumptions: (1) the data being analyzed contain early indicators… read more… Aberration Reporting System; ED, emergency department; ESSENCE, Electronic Surveillance Systems for the Early … at emergency departments The second dataset, from ESSENCE, is composed of 35 time series representing daily … -
CDC Stimulant v2
Content Type: Syndrome
THE KNOWLEDGE REPOSITORY HAS BEEN UPDATED TO INCLUDE CDC STIMULANT OVERDOSE V3 - THE UPDATED SYNDROME DEFINITION CAN BE FOUND HERE.… read more… Exclusions Chief complaint Exclude See list below in ESSENCE code (most around molly and crack) Table 2. ESSENCE query for suspected stimulant overdose (,^[;/ … -
Syndromic Surveillance Shows Rise in Emergency Department Visits after Case of Ebola
Content Type: Success Stories
The first Ebola virus case on American soil was confirmed September 30, 2014, in a 45-year-old man. He had entered the country on September 20, 2014, from Liberia. Feeling ill, he visited a Dallas, Texas, hospital 5 days later where he was released… read more… Region 2/3 syndromic surveillance data and associated ESSENCE analytics through the North Texas Syndromic … Region 2/3 syndromic surveillance data and associated ESSENCE analytics through the North Texas Syndromic … Preparedness Summit. Findings were based on the use of ESSENCE in the study of emergency room surge due to the … -
CDC Opioid v2
Content Type: Syndrome
THE KNOWLEDGE REPOSITORY HAS BEEN UPDATED TO INCLUDE CDC OPIOID V3 - THE UPDATED SYNDROME DEFINITION CAN BE FOUND HERE. States currently funded by… read more… Exclusions Chief complaint Exclude See list below in ESSENCE code (many exclusions were required for “oxy” and “fent”) Table 2. ESSENCE query for suspected opioid overdose … -
Comparison of 2005-2007 Influenza-Like Illness Observed from Emergency Department Visits in Miami-Dade County
Content Type: Abstract
The purpose of this study was to compare the 2005- 2006 and 2006-2007 Influenza seasons using Influenza-like illness (ILI) data received from Emergency Departments in Miami-Dade County.… MDCHD has implemented a syndromic surveillance system (ESSENCE) to monitor ILI trends from data received from … -
Talking Turkish: Using N-Grams for Syndromic Surveillance in a Turkish Emergency Department without the Need for English Translation
Content Type: Abstract
Previously we used an “N-Gram” classifier for syndromic surveillance of emergency department (ED) chief complaints (CC) in English for bioterrorism. The classifier is trained on a set of ED visits for which both the ICD diagnosis code and CC are… read more… respiratory grouping of ICD9 codes created by the ESSENCE-CDC project. We then used an N- Gram method adapted …