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

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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Main Authors: Elizabeth M. Begier, Denise Sockwell, Leslie M. Branch, John O. Davies-Cole, LaVerne H. Jones, Leslie Edwards, Julie A. Casani, David Blythe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2003-03-01
Series:Emerging Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
population surveillance/methods
public health
bioterrorism
emergency services
hospital
dispatch
Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/9/3/02-0363_article

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https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/9/3/02-0363_article

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