Using syndromic surveillance for unintentional and undetermined intent drowning surveillance in a large metropolitan area.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

A drowning definition is available for use with National Syndromic Surveillance Program (NSSP) data. However, its accuracy in capturing drowning emergency department and urgent care visits at the regional level is unknown. We tested the ability of the syndromic surveillance (SS) definition in capturing unintentional and undetermined intent drowning (UUID) and describe UUID SS visit trends in a large metropolitan area.

Methods

We applied the drowning definition to NSSP data from 2016 to 2022 for the 8-county metropolitan Houston region. We queried the dataset for UUID ICD-10-CM codes and manually reviewed the chief complaint (CC) and discharge diagnosis (DD) for SS visits. True-positives were calculated by dividing the number of UUID cases identified by UUID ICD-

SUBMITTER: Shenoi RP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11426074 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature