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

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

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Mar 2003
By Begier, Elizabeth M. ; Sockwell, Denise ; Branch, Leslie M. ; ...

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Emerg Infect Dis
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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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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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Algorithms Bioterrorism Dispatch District Of Columbia Emergency Service, Hospital Emergency Services Hospital Humans Population Surveillance/methods Public Health Sepsis Syndrome
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Emerg Infect Dis. 9(3):393-396
Pubmed ID:

12643841
Pubmed Central ID:

PMC2958546
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Journal Article
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9
Issue:

3
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Emerging Infectious Diseases
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urn:sha256:696191a2620e51d5fd8db4b1f5ec057b9fd332350d6d246529baa8da9a23accd
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The National Capitol Region’s Emergency Department Syndromic Surveillance System: Do Chief Complaint and Discharge Diagnosis Yield Different Results?

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