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Can Chief Complaints Identify Patients with Febrile Syndromes?
Content Type: Abstract
Syndromic surveillance systems often classify patients into syndromic categories based on emergency department (ED) chief complaints. There exists no standard set of syndromes for syndromic surveillance, and the available syndromic case… read more… database since 1990, including free-text triage chief com- plaints, dictated and transcribed ED reports, and coded … sented by the chief complaint and whether or not the com- plaint indicated that the patient had a fever. He … and febrile syndromic categories. Comparing chief com- plaint classification against the criterion standard …