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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  

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Query purpose:

To assist state, local, tribal, territorial, and federal public health practitioners in monitoring emergency department (ED) visits for suspected benzodiazepine overdoses.

Submitted by hmccall on

Query purpose:

To assist state, local, tribal, territorial, and federal public health practitioners in monitoring emergency department (ED) visits for suspected stimulant overdoses.

Submitted by hmccall on

Query purpose:

To assist state, local, tribal, territorial, and federal public health practitioners in monitoring emergency department (ED) visits for suspected heroin overdoses.

Submitted by hmccall on

Query purpose:

To assist state, local, tribal, territorial, and federal public health practitioners in monitoring emergency department (ED) visits for suspected opioid overdoses.

Submitted by hmccall on

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.

Submitted by hmccall on

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.

Submitted by ZSteinKS on

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

Submitted by Anonymous on
  • Why the syndrome was created? This syndrome was created to track falling related emergency room visits. 
  • Syndromic surveillance system (e.g., ESSENCE, R STUDIO, RODS, etc.) ESSENCE 
  • Data sources the syndrome was used on (e.g., Emergency room, EMS, Air Quality, etc.) Patient Location (Full Details) 
  • Fields used to query the data (e.g., Chief Complaint, Discharge Diagnosis, Triage Notes, etc.) CCandDD 
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