The following syndrome was developed to explore emergency department visit records involving people experiencing homelessness. Trends over time, patient demographics, geographic distribution, and primary reasons for seeking care were explored. Additionally, we have been using this definition, in combination with other illness/injury specific definitions to assess the trends in among people experiencing homelessness (e.g., cold-related illness among people experiencing homelessness during record low temperatures).
Washington State Department of Health
In WA, we've been using a series of increasingly broad queries to monitor measles. The number of visits mentioning measles increases during an outbreak as a result of people seeking care because they were (or think) they were exposed, seeking titers, vaccinations, or having seen reports of measles on the news and concerns than an illness could be measles. As a result, it is important to focus in on visits of highest suspicion as mentions of measles increase.
Objective: This is an updated to the All Traffic-related submitted in 2018. The goal is to capture all traffic-related injuries presenting for healthcare, 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 holidays, events, or weather.
Syndromic Surveillance System: ESSENCE (NSSP)
Data sources: Emergency Department and Outpatient Clinic Visits
- Objective: To monitor clinical encounters for gonorrhea infection and disease
- Syndromic surveillance system: ESSENCE
- Data Sources: Emergency department visits, primary and urgent care visits
- Fields used to query the data: Chief Complaint History, Discharge Diagnosis
- Objective: To monitor clinical encounters for chlamydia infection and disease
- Syndromic surveillance system: ESSENCE
- Data Sources: Emergency department visits, primary and urgent care visits
- Fields used to query the data: Chief Complaint History, Discharge Diagnosis
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