Comparison of syndromic surveillance and hospital discharge data for unintentional drowning in metropolitan Houston, Texas, USA.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Syndromic surveillance, which provides real-time data, may provide timely drowning surveillance compared with hospital discharge data where the release of data may be delayed. We compared data on hospital visits for unintentional drowning identified in hospital discharge and syndromic surveillance data sets for accuracy and completeness.

Methods

We compared data for hospital visits for unintentional drowning identified in the Texas Health Care Information Collection hospital discharge and syndromic surveillance data sets for metropolitan Houston, Texas, USA from 2019 to 2021. Hospital visits included emergency department-only visits and hospital admissions. We compared time-series visualisation of hospital visits between data sets. Injury burden, demographics and

SUBMITTER: Peoples N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11925658 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature