Objective: Capture all traffic-related injuries presenting to the emergency room regardless of intent or vehicle type to allow monitoring of long-term trends in traffic-related injuries as well as short-term aberrations due to holiday, events, weather.
Syndromic Surveillance System: ESSENCE
Data sources: Emergency Department Visits
Fields queried: SubSyndrome Free Text, Chief Complaint History, Admit Reason Code, Admit Reason Combo, Discharge Diagnosis History
Includes text strings as well as all motor vehicle-traffic ICD-10 CM codes (N=449). Explored, but excluded: seatbelt, driver, passenger, airbag+deploy, rear+ended, collision, MVC. Ruled out inclusion of Clinical Impression and Triage Notes due to increased noise without much increase in sensitivity.
MotorVehicle or ((PED or BIKE or BICYCLE or SKATE or SKATING) AND (VERSUS or VS[. ] or (V[. ] ANDNOT [A-Z]V))) or motor vehicle crash or motorcycle crash or V0[2349].[19][0129] or V0[2349][19][0129] or V09.2[019] or V092[019] or V1[234].[3459] or V1[234][3459] or V19.[4-6][09] or V19[4-6][09] or V2[0-8].[3459] or V2[0-8][3459] or V29.[456][09] or V29[456][09] or V29.8[18] or V298[18] or V29.9 or V3[0-7].[45679] or V3[0-7][45679] or V39.8[19] or V398[19] or V4[01245678].[45679] or V4[01245678][45679] or V43.[45679][1-4] or V43[45679][1-4] or V[3-7]9.[456][09] or V[3-7]9[456][09] or V[3-7]9.9 or V[3-7]99 or V[4-7]9.8[18] or V[4-7]98[18] or V[5-7][0-8].[45679] or V[5-7][0-8][45679] or V8[345].[0-3] or V8[345][0-3] or V86.[0-3][1234569] or V86[0-3][1234569] or V80.[345][12] or V80[345][12] or V8[12].1 or V8[12]1 or V87.[0-9] or V87[0-9] or V89.2 or V892 or Y32 or Y0[23].0 or Y0[23]0 or Y03.8 or Y038 or X82.[028] or X82[028] or X81.0 or X810 or X82.1 or X821