Technical Resources

What to know

NSSP offers technical resources to support syndromic surveillance practitioners as we work together to protect our communities. Having complete, accurate, and timely data is an excellent foundation for improving health outcomes. CDC's investment in technology and processes helps prepare us to respond to public health threats.

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Publications

Access & Management Center User Guide

Posit Workbench/RStudio User Manual

Use Posit Workbench to perform heavy data query analysis and visual data analytics.

SAS Studio User Manual

Use SAS Studio to perform heavy data query analysis and data analytics.

Data Quality Dashboard User Manual

Data-Quality-on-Demand User Manual

Getting Started as a Site Administrator

Ultimate Guide For Site Administrators

Query Development Job Aid

How to Use ESSENCE CCI and DDI Data Quality Filters

Find more job aids in our Onboarding Resources.

Commercial Lab Data Dictionary

NSSP Data Dictionary

NSSP Data Flow

Laboratory Lookup Tables

Successfully onboarding health care facilities, vendors, and public health sites into the NSSP BioSense Platform is vital. Find all the information you need—guides, job aids, FAQs, articles, and more—on Onboarding Resources.

BioSense Platform resources

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Access & Management Center

The Access & Management Center (AMC) launches NSSP apps. It also supports administrative functions.
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ESSENCE

ESSENCE is the key tool that allows public health professionals to analyze BioSense Platform data.
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Posit Workbench and SAS Studio

Posit Workbench and SAS Studio help public health professionals analyze BioSense Platform data.
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Master Facility Table

The Master Facility Table (MFT) ensures data map correctly and are easily identifiable when queried.
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Data Quality Tools

The NSSP BioSense Platform hosts several tools for monitoring production-level data. 

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Mortality Data

Public health sites are encouraged to share mortality data with NSSP through the BioSense Platform.
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Electronic Laboratory Data

Laboratory data shared with NSSP support officials in monitoring public health threats.

Standards

CDC has developed and published syndromic surveillance messaging guides. Review our Implementation Guides.

Helpful articles

We have channeled our expertise into a series of articles with tips, guidance, and background information for the syndromic surveillance practitioner. Explore our library of helpful articles.

Advancing practice

NSSP data inform articles authored by CDC staff and partners. This work adds to the body of evidence used by the public health community. View Articles That Use NSSP Data.

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