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  • Content Type: Syndrome

    Query purpose: This definition aims to detect emergency department (ED) visits for Lyme carditis in areas where Lyme disease is common. Lyme carditis occurs when Lyme disease spirochetes (bacteria) invade heart tissue. To fit… read more
    … This definition aims to detect emergency department (ED) visits for Lyme carditis in areas where Lyme disease is … and chief complaint text to identify emergency department visits for patients with Lyme carditis. The definition … 1 indicates visits related to Lyme disease to ensure the visit is consistent with Lyme disease (see Table 1). Clause …
  • Content Type: Syndrome

    Query purpose:The purpose of this definition is to capture potential emergency department visits related to asthma.How it works:The Chief Complaint Discharge Diagnosis (CCDD) parsed field is used to query both the… read more
    … definition is to capture potential emergency department visits related to asthma. How it works: The Chief Complaint … complaint free text terms related to severe asthma: The visit is included if it contains: A chief complaint related … OR The visit is included if it contains the following set of terms nested together: A chief complaint …
  • Content Type: Syndrome

    Query purpose: The Overall Disability (v1) definition is part of a group of eight definitions (seven domain-specific and one overall) to identify emergency department visits by people with disabilities using a set of criteria… read more
    … and one overall) to identify emergency department visits by people with disabilities using a set of criteria … codes, and keywords representing patient reason for visit. These definitions can be used to disaggregate … code-based definitions to identify emergency department visits from people with disabilities through a …
  • Content Type: Syndrome

    Definition Purpose: To assist state, local, tribal, territorial, and federal public health practitioners in identifying emergency department (ED) visits for suspected suicide attempts. The definition can be used to supplement case-finding using… read more
    … practitioners in identifying emergency department (ED) visits for suspected suicide attempts. The definition can be … on suicidal intent as the definition included ED visits due to non-suicidal self-harm. ED-SNSRO recipients … self-harms, were included in v1 but not in v2. Following recommendations from the Colorado Tri-County …
  • Content Type: Syndrome

    Query purpose: To assist state, local, tribal, territorial, and federal public health practitioners in monitoring emergency department (ED) visits for suspected nonfatal methamphetamine-involved overdoses.Definition… read more
    … practitioners in monitoring emergency department (ED) visits for suspected nonfatal methamphetamine-involved … intent. The query relies on data in two fields from ED visit records to identify encounters that meet the … instances, the visit is captured only if it includes the following two components and no exclusion terms: 1) chief …
  • Content Type: Syndrome

    Query purpose:This query is intended to identify visits in the emergency department (ED) with diagnostic codes and/or chief complaints associated with a broad range of self-harm injuries and/or behavior. This includes codes (… read more
    … Query purpose: This query is intended to identify visits in the emergency department (ED) with diagnostic … states that conducted testing (WA, KS, VT, and CO). A visit was confirmed as intentional self-harm by supportive … or ruled out if it was not related to self-harm (such as follow-up or sequalae visits for previous self-harm, or …
  • Content Type: Syndrome

    Query purpose: To assist state, local, tribal, territorial, and federal public health practitioners in monitoring emergency department (ED) visits for suspected nonfatal heroin-involved overdoses using syndromic surveillance… read more
    … practitioners in monitoring emergency department (ED) visits for suspected nonfatal heroin-involved overdoses … overdose syndrome definition was designed to identify ED visits for suspected nonfatal heroin-involved overdoses of … intent. The query relies on data in two fields from ED visit records to identify encounters that meet the …
  • Content Type: Syndrome

    Query purpose: Created by the CDC National Syndromic Surveillance Program (NSSP) for use with ED data as part of the rapid reportables project, which seeks to create queries for all National Notifiable Diseases defined by the… read more
    … future. This query is intended to be narrow and capture visits with specific terms to support greater monitoring and … polio-related chief complaint free-text terms: The visit is included if it contains: Chief complaints related … "immuniz", "prophy", "post polio", "encounter for", "follow up") OR ICD-10 discharge diagnosis codes related to …