A synthetic dataset resembling line-list (each row is a patient) data from the United States' National Syndromic Surveillance System (NSSP) accessed via the Essence platform. All entries are synthetic, formatted to look as close to the real raw data as possible.

For an example of how to produce a nowcast from this data, see vignette("nssp_nowcast").

Usage

syn_nssp_line_list

Format

A data.frame with 25 rows and 8 columns.

C_Processed_BioSenseID

Unique identifier for each patient

CCDDParsed

Character string indicating primary symptoms and corresponding diagnoses codes.

DischargeDiagnosisMDTUpdates

Character string formatted as a dictionary with indices and corresponding time stamps formatted as YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.

DischargeDiagnosisUpdates

Character string formatted as a dictionary with indices and corresponding diagnoses codes pertaining to this diagnosis associated with that event.

HasBeenAdmitted

Numeric indicating whether the patient was admitted (0 for no, 1 for admission).

C_Visit_Date_Time

Date-time indicating the time stamp of the the patient registering in the emergency department, in YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS format.

c_race

Character string indicating the race/ethnicity of the patient.

sex

Character string indicating the sex of the patient.

Source

Created for package demonstration to provide an example of how to pre-process this dataset to obtain a reporting triangle. This is made to look like the data that one would pull directly an API to access patient-level line-list data.