This syndrome was created as a way to monitor Frostbite, Cold Exposure, & Hypothermia in Kansas Emergency Department visits. **Please note that the hypothermia portion of this syndrome was created to ONLY include hypothermia associated with low environmental temperature.
Syndromic Surveillance System - NSSP ESSENCE
Data sources - Emergency Room Visits
Fields Used - CCDD (an ESSENCE-concatenated field of Chief Complaint and Discharge Diagnosis)
Syndrome Definition
T68 OR T69 ANDNOT (T69.8) OR T33 OR T34 OR frost^bite OR (exposure AND cold) OR (frost AND nip) OR X31 Please note that in ESSENCE, the term "frost^bite" returns all cases containing both "frost" AND "bite" but requires they be in the order stated.
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