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Firearm Injury Surveillance Webinar Recording Posted

February 21, 2023

The recording for our February 21, 2023 webinar on the use of NC DETECT and the North Carolina Violent Death Reporting System Dashboard for firearm injury surveillance is now available on our training page. NC DETECT has firearm injury indicators … Continued

Using NC DETECT to Monitor Covid-like Illness (CLI)

April 27, 2020

The NC Division of Public Health now has a weekly surveillance report that shows weekly trends in covid-like illness (CLI*) at statewide and regional levels. Authorized NC DETECT users can view CLI trends at the county level using the the … Continued

Overdose Surveillance Updates: Webinar Recording Available

November 20, 2019

A recording of today’s overdose surveillance updates webinar has been posted to https://ncdetect.org/training/. Topics include the customizable dashboards, new overdose indicators available for EMS data, and how epidemiologists at the NC Division of Public Health Injury and Violence Prevention Branch … Continued

EMS Data Available Again in NC DETECT

August 14, 2019

*Update* As of September 6, 2019, we now have the following syndromes available in the EMS data: Hurricane-Related Naloxone Standing E-Scooter Traffic-Related Traffic-Related: Bicyclists Traffic-Related: Pedestrians To review these data for your jurisdiction, go to the Syndrome Line Listing Report … Continued

Emergency Department Visits for Heat-Related Illness

July 18, 2019

Weekly updates on emergency department visits for heat-related illness as well as prevention tips are available on the NC Division of Public Health’s website at: https://publichealth.nc.gov/chronicdiseaseandinjury/heat.htm. In addition authorized NC DETECT users can review county-level heat-related illness data on the … Continued

Sharing NC DETECT Data with Non-NC DETECT Users

June 4, 2018

The emergency department (ED) data in NC DETECT are collected by the NC Division of Public Health Communicable Disease Branch under NC State Statute. Please keep confidentiality in mind when sharing NC DETECT information with partners outside of the health … Continued

Winter Weather Injuries

February 28, 2018

NC DETECT tracks emergency department visits for injuries using a variety of ICD-9/19-CM and keyword-based reports.  Graphs below are from the Winter Weather Injuries report which is a keyword-based report.  The graphs show ED visit trends by date as well … Continued