Definition Purpose: Created by the CDC National Syndromic Surveillance Program (NSSP) for use with emergency department data to develop queries for all National Notifiable Diseases defined by the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS). Please note that while the disease queries are developed using the NNDSS case definition as the basis for identifying patient visits of interest, the queried patient visits themselves may or may not represent a case patient in NNDSS and further public health investigation will most often be required. This query is intended to be a version 1 and may be further improved upon by the NSSP community of practice in the future. This query is intended to be narrow and capture visits with specific terms to support greater monitoring and actionable public health data. More complex and/or broader queries may exist that more broadly capture symptoms or travel-based terms.
Added to ESSENCE: October 2025
Definition Description: Designed to capture emergency department visits with a diagnostic code or textual indicator of possible toxic shock syndrome.
See attached for full syndrome definition.