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Alternative Title:
J Am Med Inform Assoc
Personal Author:
Kass-Hout, Taha A ; Buckeridge, David ; Brownstein, John ; Xu, Zhiheng ; McMurray, Paul ; ... More +
Kass-Hout, Taha A ; Buckeridge, David ; Brownstein, John ; Xu, Zhiheng ; McMurray, Paul ; Ishikawa, Charles K T ; Gunn, Julia ; Massoudi, Barbara L Less -
Description:
Many public health agencies monitor population health using syndromic surveillance, generally employing information from emergency department (ED) visit records. When combined with other information, objective evidence of fever may enhance the accuracy with which surveillance systems detect syndromes of interest, such as influenza-like illness. This study found that patient chief complaint of self-reported fever was more readily available in ED records than measured temperature and that the majority of patients with an elevated temperature recorded also self-reported fever. Due to its currently limited availability, we conclude that measured temperature is likely to add little value to self-reported fever in syndromic surveillance for febrile illness using ED records.
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Communicable Disease Control
Diagnostic Self Evaluation
Disease Outbreaks
Emergency Service, Hospital
Fever
Humans
Population Surveillance
Sentinel Surveillance
Thermometry
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Source:
J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2012; 19(5):775-776.
Document Type:
Journal Article
Place as Subject:
United States
Collection(s):
CDC Public Access
Main Document Checksum:
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urn:sha256:adba242369f9b2a644aae0726f2ab4cb54b7fc2a566738ded0fdca98b73a37e4
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