About this item:
142 Views | 63 Downloads
Author Notes:
Gregory Danyluk, E-mail: gregory.danyluk@flhealth.gov
We wish to thank the epidemiology staff of the Florida Department of Health in Seminole County, their counterparts at the Florida Department of Health in Orange County, and the staff at the Bureau of Epidemiology for the Florida Department of Health in Tallahassee, in particular David Atrubin for ESSENCE assistance, and Colin Malone for his comments regarding statewide influenza surveillance.
We also extend a deep appreciation to the ILINet sentinel healthcare providers for their continued participation.
Subject:
Keywords:
- ILINet
- ESSENCE
- influenza
- CDC
- outpatient
- discharge
- diagnosis
- Florida
Comparison of ILINet and ESSENCE for Influenza Surveillance at the Local Level
Abstract:
ILINet is used by sentinel healthcare providers for reporting influenza surveillance data. The Florida Department of Health receives urgent care center data through the ESSENCE syndromic surveillance system from participating facilities, and which can include discharge diagnoses. Seminole County is unique in that its sentinel providers located in four separate urgent care centers report into both systems, and their discharge diagnoses are recorded in ESSENCE. Data from the two systems were therefore compared both among and between the individual sentinel providers in order to identify differences in reporting influenza in ILINet from actual discharge diagnoses for influenza identified through ESSENCE.
Copyright information:
ISDS Annual Conference Proceedings 2014
This is an Open Access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/).
