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Defining emergency department asthma visits for public health surveillance
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Tracking emergency department (ED) asthma visits is an important part of asthma surveillance, as ED visits can be preventable and may represent a failure of asthma control efforts. When using limited clinical ED datasets for secondary purposes such… read more… The prevailing approach uses only the primary ICD-9-CM diagnosis assigned to the ED visit; however, doing so may … The prevailing approach uses only the primary ICD�9�CM diag- nosis (Dx) for the ED visit (2); however, doing so … may underestimate the public health impact of asthma. We con- ducted this pilot study to determine the value of …