Stories from the dashboard: Emergency department visits related to suicidal ideation among North Carolinian youth
Mental health-related outcomes are a point of great concern, particularly in times as tumultuous as these. One report from the Kaiser Family Foundation, found adults reporting symptoms of anxiety disorder and/or depressive disorder increased from 11% in 2019 to 41% … Read more
Stories from the dashboard: COIVD-19 and motor vehicle crash-related emergency department visits across North Carolina
One of the strengths of the recently released NC Transportation Safety and Public Health Data Dashboard is its ability to leverage data from multiple sources, allowing for a deeper understanding of pressing public health issues. In this first installment of … Read more
NC DETECT Dashboards
In addition to the NC Transportation Safety and Public Health Data Dashboard released earlier this month, several other dashboards have been released, leveraging different elements of NC DETECT data. You can find a summary of each below: Annual ED Visit … Read more
Announcing the Release of the NC Transportation Safety and Public Health Data Dashboard
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Carolina Center for Health Informatics and Injury Prevention Research Center recently collaborated with the North Carolina Division of Public Health’s Injury and Violence Prevention Branch to launch the NC Transportation Safety and … Read more
Using NC DETECT for Motor Vehicle Crash Injury Surveillance: Recording Now Available
The recording for our webinar on using NC DETECT for Motor Vehicle Crash Injury Surveillance is now available on our training page. This 40-minute webinar shares tips on using emergency department (ED) and EMS data from NC DETECT for motor … Read more
Using NC DETECT to Monitor Covid-like Illness (CLI)
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 … Read more
Overdose Surveillance Updates: Webinar Recording Available
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 … Read more
EMS Data Available Again in NC DETECT
*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 … Read more
Emergency Department Visits for Heat-Related Illness
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
Sharing NC DETECT Data with Non-NC DETECT Users
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