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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

There are several new motor vehicle crash indicators now available on NC DETECT. Bicyclist (traffic-related and traffic/nontraffic-related) Motor vehicle traffic-related Pedestrian crashes (traffic-related and traffic/nontraffic-related. These join existing reports available for motorcycle (on-road and on-road/off-road), and off-road/all-terrain vehicle (ATV) crashes. … Read more

NC DETECT tracks ED visits for snakebites based on a case definition that looks for mention of snakebites in the chief complaint or triage notes OR a diagnosis (ICD-10-CM code) of a snakebite. The complete definition is available on the … Read more

The graph below developed by KJ Harmon displays ED visits from 2016 and 2017 that were captured by the NC DETECT “syndrome” for drowning / near drowning. †Syndrome is based on a combination of keywords and ICD-10-CM codes. ‡Weekly count … Read more

With funding from the Injury and Violence Prevention Branch of the NC Division of Public Health, a new report is available from the Carolina Center for Health Informatics in the Department of Emergency Medicine at UNC Chapel HIll: Harmon KJ, … Read more