EMS Heat-related Illness Incidents by Locality and Month/Year

This dataset contains Emergency Medical Services (EMS) information for reported emergency response incidents in Virginia that involve heat-related illness (HRI), as defined using heat-related protocols; heat-related ICD-10-CM codes in the cause of injury, primary impression, and secondary impressions fields; and key terms in the patient complaint and narrative text fields. The full case definition is available on this Virginia Department of Health Office of EMS data requests webpage under ‘Case Definitions’: https://www.vdh.virginia.gov/emergency-medical-services/ems-trauma-data/data-requests/. These data only represent HRI patients who interacted with the EMS system and do not represent HRI patients who reported directly to an emergency room or did not seek medical care. Therefore, these data should not be interpreted as the total number of HRI incidents in a community.

Data in this dataset have been provided by ESO on behalf of the Office of EMS. Please be advised that the accuracy of the data within the EMS patient care reporting system is limited by system performance and the accuracy of data submissions received from EMS agencies.

Counts of less than 5 have been suppressed, denoted by an asterisk, to prevent individual identification and protect patient confidentiality. This dataset has been classified as a Tier 0 asset by the Commonwealth Data Trust. Tier 0 classifies a data resource as information that is neither sensitive nor proprietary and is intended for public access.