Syndrome Definition

The following syndrome was developed to explore emergency department visit records involving people experiencing homelessness. Trends over time, patient demographics, geographic distribution, and primary reasons for seeking care were explored. Additionally, we have been using this definition, in combination with other illness/injury specific definitions to assess the trends in among people experiencing homelessness (e.g., cold-related illness among people experiencing homelessness during record low temperatures).

Uploaded on behalf of Grace Marx, MD, MPH: Bacterial Diseases Branch, Division of Vector-Borne Diseases, CDC.

This syndrome definition was created to explore tick through Syndromic data as an efficient approach to monitor the tick-borne diseases and the utility of tick bite visits to predict the seasonal peak in Lyme disease.

This was created in NSSP ESSENCE, using the Chief Complaint Query Validation (CCQV) data to ensure a broad application across different states and jurisdictions.

Uploaded on behalf of Grace Marx, MD, MPH: Bacterial Diseases Branch, Division of Vector-Borne Diseases, CDC.

This syndrome definition was created to explore Lyme disease through Syndromic data as an efficient approach to monitor the disease. 

This was created in NSSP ESSENCE, using the Chief Complaint Query Validation (CCQV) data to ensure a broad application across different states and jurisdictions.

• 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 

Responding to an ask on the ISDS forums (https://www.healthsurveillance.org/forums/posts.aspx?group=190904&topic…), KDHE made a first attempt at a Gunshot Injury query for Kansas syndromic data. There are a lot of other versions of GSW queries in this forum post. I recommend looking over the thread.

THE KNOWLEDGE REPOSITORY HAS BEEN UPDATED TO INCLUDE CDC ALL DRUG V2 - THE UPDATED SYNDROME DEFINITION CAN BE FOUND HERE.

• Why the syndrome was created?
  • Track food poisoning and potential disease outbreaks due to infected food 
• 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

• Objective: To monitor clinical encounters for gonorrhea infection and disease
• Syndromic surveillance system: ESSENCE
• Data Sources: Emergency department visits, primary and urgent care visits 
• Fields used to query the data: Chief Complaint History, Discharge Diagnosis

• Objective: To monitor clinical encounters for chlamydia infection and disease
• Syndromic surveillance system: ESSENCE
• Data Sources: Emergency department visits, primary and urgent care visits 
• Fields used to query the data: Chief Complaint History, Discharge Diagnosis