The National Capitol Region’s Emergency Department Syndromic Surveillance System: 
Do Chief Complaint and Discharge Diagnosis Yield Different Results?

We compared syndromic categorization of chief complaint and discharge diagnosis for 3,919 emergency department visits to two hospitals in the U.S. National Capitol Region. Agreement between chief complaint and discharge diagnosis was good overall (kappa=0.639), but neurologic and sepsis syndromes ha...

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Autores principales: Begier, Elizabeth M., Sockwell, Denise, Branch, Leslie M., Davies-Cole, John O., Jones, LaVerne H., Edwards, Leslie, Casani, Julie A., Blythe, David
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2003
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2958546/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12643841
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid0903.020363
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author Begier, Elizabeth M.
Sockwell, Denise
Branch, Leslie M.
Davies-Cole, John O.
Jones, LaVerne H.
Edwards, Leslie
Casani, Julie A.
Blythe, David
author_facet Begier, Elizabeth M.
Sockwell, Denise
Branch, Leslie M.
Davies-Cole, John O.
Jones, LaVerne H.
Edwards, Leslie
Casani, Julie A.
Blythe, David
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description We compared syndromic categorization of chief complaint and discharge diagnosis for 3,919 emergency department visits to two hospitals in the U.S. National Capitol Region. Agreement between chief complaint and discharge diagnosis was good overall (kappa=0.639), but neurologic and sepsis syndromes had markedly lower agreement than other syndromes (kappa statistics 0.085 and 0.105, respectively).
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spelling pubmed-29585462010-10-27 The National Capitol Region’s Emergency Department Syndromic Surveillance System: 
Do Chief Complaint and Discharge Diagnosis Yield Different Results? Begier, Elizabeth M. Sockwell, Denise Branch, Leslie M. Davies-Cole, John O. Jones, LaVerne H. Edwards, Leslie Casani, Julie A. Blythe, David Emerg Infect Dis Dispatch We compared syndromic categorization of chief complaint and discharge diagnosis for 3,919 emergency department visits to two hospitals in the U.S. National Capitol Region. Agreement between chief complaint and discharge diagnosis was good overall (kappa=0.639), but neurologic and sepsis syndromes had markedly lower agreement than other syndromes (kappa statistics 0.085 and 0.105, respectively). Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2003-03 /pmc/articles/PMC2958546/ /pubmed/12643841 http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid0903.020363 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is a publication of the U.S. Government. This publication is in the public domain and is therefore without copyright. All text from this work may be reprinted freely. Use of these materials should be properly cited.
spellingShingle Dispatch
Begier, Elizabeth M.
Sockwell, Denise
Branch, Leslie M.
Davies-Cole, John O.
Jones, LaVerne H.
Edwards, Leslie
Casani, Julie A.
Blythe, David
The National Capitol Region’s Emergency Department Syndromic Surveillance System: 
Do Chief Complaint and Discharge Diagnosis Yield Different Results?
title The National Capitol Region’s Emergency Department Syndromic Surveillance System: 
Do Chief Complaint and Discharge Diagnosis Yield Different Results?
title_full The National Capitol Region’s Emergency Department Syndromic Surveillance System: 
Do Chief Complaint and Discharge Diagnosis Yield Different Results?
title_fullStr The National Capitol Region’s Emergency Department Syndromic Surveillance System: 
Do Chief Complaint and Discharge Diagnosis Yield Different Results?
title_full_unstemmed The National Capitol Region’s Emergency Department Syndromic Surveillance System: 
Do Chief Complaint and Discharge Diagnosis Yield Different Results?
title_short The National Capitol Region’s Emergency Department Syndromic Surveillance System: 
Do Chief Complaint and Discharge Diagnosis Yield Different Results?
title_sort national capitol region’s emergency department syndromic surveillance system: 
do chief complaint and discharge diagnosis yield different results?
topic Dispatch
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2958546/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12643841
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid0903.020363
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