Identifying Local Hot Spots of Pediatric Chronic Diseases Using Emergency Department Surveillance

To use novel geographic methods and large-scale claims data to identify the local distribution of pediatric chronic diseases in New York City.Using a 2009 all-payer emergency claims database, we identified the proportion of unique children aged 0 to 17 with diagnosis codes for specific medical and psychiatric conditions. As a proof of concept, we compared these prevalence estimates to traditional health surveys and registry data using the most...