The purpose of this syndromic surveillance query is to monitor trends in unintentional motor vehicle traffic-related crash injury among passenger vehicle occupants who present to emergency departments. Passenger vehicles are defined as cars/SUVs, pick-up trucks, and vans for the purposes of this syndrome. Emergency department visits due to crashes among drivers and riders of other types of vehicles like motorcycles, heavy transport vehicles, buses, and tractor trailers are excluded from this query.
Injury
Query purpose:
The objective is to identify visits that likely reflected recreational boating incidents that should have been reported via federal regulation (33 CFR 174.121) to the United States Coast Guard as part of the National Recreational Boating Safety Program. More information on recreational boating incident reporting and statistics can be found on this website: https://uscgboating.org/statistics/accident_statistics.php
Query purpose:
To assist state, local, tribal, territorial, and federal public health practitioners in monitoring emergency department (ED) visits for suspected benzodiazepine overdoses.
Query purpose:
To assist state, local, tribal, territorial, and federal public health practitioners in monitoring emergency department (ED) visits for suspected stimulant overdoses.
Query purpose:
To assist state, local, tribal, territorial, and federal public health practitioners in monitoring emergency department (ED) visits for suspected heroin overdoses.
Query purpose:
To assist state, local, tribal, territorial, and federal public health practitioners in monitoring emergency department (ED) visits for suspected opioid overdoses.
Query purpose:
To assist state, local, tribal, territorial, and federal public health practitioners in monitoring emergency department (ED) visits for suspected overdoses of any drug.
Why the syndrome was created:
A step-wise article on developing this syndrome definition can be found in the April 2019 NSSP Update https://www.cdc.gov/nssp/news.html
This syndrome is an initial attempt at an improved Drowning and Submersion query in NSSP ESSENCE. It was developed starting with the existing ESSENCE SubSyndrome for DrowningOrSubmersion.
Objective: This is an updated to the All Traffic-related submitted in 2018. The goal is to capture all traffic-related injuries presenting for healthcare, regardless of intent or vehicle type, to allow monitoring of long-term trends in traffic-related injuries as well as short-term aberrations due to holidays, events, or weather.
Syndromic Surveillance System: ESSENCE (NSSP)
Data sources: Emergency Department and Outpatient Clinic Visits