- Why the syndrome was created? This syndrome was created to monitor tick related emergency room visits using regular expressions in R.
- Syndromic surveillance system (e.g., ESSENCE, R STUDIO, RODS, etc.) Data collected from Epicenter, but parsed and analysed in R/Rstudio
- Data sources the syndrome was used on (e.g., Emergency room, EMS, Air Quality, etc.) Emergency room and Urgent Care
- Fields used to query the data (e.g., Chief Complaint, Discharge Diagnosis, Triage Notes, etc.) Chief Complaint, Initial and Discharge ICD, Triage Notes
- Any other relevant information: Uses regular expression 'look arounds' that may not be compatible with all types of regex, but will work within R Studio and the 'stringr' package. Also snomed codes show up in our ICD fields so a snomed code is used here.
Syndrome Definition
Chief Complaint Inclusions Regular Expression: \btick\sbi|by\stick|\btcik|remov(?=.*tick)|(?=tick\s)remov|bullseye(?=.*rash)
Intial ICD and Discharge ICD inclusions Regular Expression: SCT-95898004
Triage Note Inclusion Regular Expression:\btick\sbi|by\stick|\btcik|removed\stick|(?=tick\s)remov|bullseye(?=.*rash)