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
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2003
Materias:
Dispatch
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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