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A Comparison of Chief Complaints and Emergency Department Reports for Identifying Patients with Acute Lower Respiratory Syndrome
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Automated syndromic surveillance systems often classify patients into syndromic categories based on free-text chief complaints. Chief complaints (CC) demonstrate low to moderate sensitivity in identifying syndromic cases. Emergency Department (ED)… read more… reports promise more detailed clinical information that may increase sensitivity of detection. Objective: Compare … reports promise more detailed clinical information that may increase sensitivity of detection. OBJECTIVE Compare … a Random Forests Classifier. Gold Standard Classification com- prised majority vote of three physicians reading ED …