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The use of NC DETECT ED data to examine heat-related illness
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NC DETECT provides near-real-time statewide surveillance capacity to local, regional and state level users across NC with twice daily data feeds from 119 (99%) emergency departments (EDs), hourly updates from the statewide poison center, and daily… read more… waves: heat-related illness (HRI) by keyword, by ICD-9-CM codes and dehydration (keyword). The ICD-9-CM report captures the most visits for HRI compared with the … A Ising et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 17 Conclusions NC DETECT receives triage …