Application of Syndromic Surveillance to Describe Gunshot-related Injuries in Houston | Zendy

Ryan M. Arnold | Zendy; Wesley McNeely | Zendy; Kasimu Muhetaer | Zendy; Biru Yang | Zendy; Raouf R. Arafat | Zendy

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Application of Syndromic Surveillance to Describe Gunshot-related Injuries in Houston

Author(s) -

Ryan M. Arnold,

Wesley McNeely,

Kasimu Muhetaer,

Biru Yang,

Raouf R. Arafat

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

online journal of public health informatics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 1947-2579

DOI - 10.5210/ojphi.v7i1.5772

Subject(s) - medicine , medical emergency , emergency department , injury surveillance , poison control , gunshot injury , occupational safety and health , injury prevention , suicide prevention , retrospective cohort study , zip code , emergency medicine , geography , surgery , cartography , pathology , psychiatry

Firearm-related injuries pose a substantial public health risk in the United States, and traditional means of studying this issue rely primarily on retrospective analyses. Syndromic surveillance, collected in over 30 Houston area emergency departments, is well suited to characterize and analyze gunshot injuries in the area in near real-time. Over the past two years, more than 900 gunshot-related injury visits were identified using this method, and ArcGIS effectively identified incident densities in ZIP codes throughout Houston. Most patients were males (86.3%), between the ages of 18 and 34 (64.7%).

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