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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 … database since 1990, including free-text triage chief com- plaints, dictated and transcribed ED reports, and coded … classifications using methods described by Hripcsak (26). In this paper, we report the generalizability …