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 description:
Injury
Query purpose:
The purpose of the CDC Pedestrian Motor Vehicle Traffic Injury v1 syndrome definition is to assist with detection of initial emergency department (ED) visits among pedestrians unintentionally injured on public roads in traffic-related crashes involving a motor vehicle. The syndrome definition can be used to monitor trends and might help identify situations and populations that could be well served by specific injury prevention strategies.
Definition description:
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.
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: