Most children spend a significant portion of their time in daycare or at school. CSTE's Environmental Health in School workgroup identified these days/hours as a setting for possible "occupational" exposures. The CSTE EH in School Workgroup created and validated this triage note query for "school-related" emergency department (ED) visits using ESSENCE.
Search Terms:
“in school” or “at school”
“in recess” or “at recess”
“in daycare” or “at daycare” with either daycare or day care, as long as they don’t explicitly state they are “not in/at daycare”
Future Considerations:
Consider including other search terms (“student” and “teacher”)
Consider exclusions (“not currently,” “not in school,” “denies bullying,” “underachievement in school,” “expelled,” and “does well in school”)
Search Terms:
“in school” or “at school”
“in recess” or “at recess”
“in daycare” or “at daycare” with either daycare or day care, as long as they don’t explicitly state they are “not in/at daycare”
ESSENCE Syntax:
^[ia][nt] school^,or,^[ia][nt] recess^,or,(,(,^[ia][nt] dayc^,or,^[ia][nt] day c^,),andnot,(,^not [ia][nt] dayc^,or,^not [ia][nt] day c^,),)
Please see the attached pdf file for the CSTE presentation on the development and validation.