Why the syndrome was created:
The purpose of the CDC Legionella v1 ESSENCE query is to capture potential visits related to Legionella. It is useful to identify potential cases for follow-up, conduct situation awareness and monitoring of outbreaks, and perform retrospective trend monitoring across geographic regions to identify possible disease hotspots, etc.
Data sources the syndrome was used on (e.g., emergency room, EMS, air quality):
Emergency room
Fields used to query the data (e.g., chief complaint, discharge diagnosis, triage notes):
Chief complaint, discharge diagnosis
Supporting document:
Authors:
Lakshmi Radhakrishnan (kvg7@cdc.gov)
Nimi Idaikaddar (yrq8@cdc.gov)
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