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Surveillance of Heat-Related Illness Among Pinal County Residents in Arizona
Content Type: Success Stories
Extreme heat events caused by high environmental temperatures are considered a major cause of weather-related deaths and injury in the United States. These events can result in a spectrum of conditions known as heat-related illnesses (HRIs), which… read more… using a combination of hospital discharge data (HDD), the ESSENCE syndromic surveillance tool within the BioSense … using ICD-9 and ICD-10 codes. For the summer of 2017, ESSENCE was used to detect HRI visits between May 1 st and September 12 th . Detection of HRI visits in ESSENCE was performed using ICD-10 codes and chief complaint …