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Can Chief Complaints Identify Patients with Febrile Syndromes?
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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… Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. Received for publication May 26, 2006; accepted for publication May 3, 2007. Background … syndromes, including syndromes that occur infrequently. All patients with an electronic triage chief complaint and … complaint only needed to be positive for the syndrome (i.e., the chief complaint did not need to indicate fever). …