%0 Journal Article
%T MERS PUI Surveillance and Restrospective Identification in
ESSENCE-FL, 2013-2015
%A David Atrubin
%A Heather Rubino
%A Janet J. Hamilton
%A Julia G. Munroe
%A Rachael Straver
%A Scott Pritchard
%J Archive of "Online Journal of Public Health Informatics".
%D 2017
%R 10.5210/ojphi.v9i1.7696
%X To retrospectively identify initial emergency department (ED) and urgent care center (UCC) visits for Florida¡¯s Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus disease (MERS-CoV) patients under investigation (PUIs) in the Florida Department of Health¡¯s (DOH) syndromic surveillance system, the Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE-FL), using information gathered from PUI case report forms and corresponding medical records for the purpose of improving syndromic surveillance for MERS-CoV. The results of this study may be further utilized in an effort to evaluate the current MERS-CoV surveillance query
%K Surveillance
%K Syndromic
%K MERS
%K Investigation
%K ESSENCE
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5462267/