Syndromic Surveillance of Emergency Department Visits Related to Unintentional Drowning, United States, 2019-2022.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To improve national drowning surveillance efforts, we developed and evaluated a definition for unintentional drowning for use in the National Syndromic Surveillance Program's ESSENCE platform (Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics) and described drowning-related emergency department (ED) visits from 2019 through 2022 using the new definition.

Methods

We adapted an unintentional drowning definition from a previous version, which included all drowning-related ED visits regardless of intent (including drowning related to assault and suicide, as well as unintentional drowning). We reviewed a random sample of 1000 visits captured by the new definition of unintentional drowning and categorized visits as likely, possibly,

SUBMITTER: Moreland B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11502259 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature