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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… database since 1990, including free-text triage chief com- plaints, dictated and transcribed ED reports, and coded … that only indicated a fever without describing a symp- tom of the syndrome (e.g., “High temp”). Figure 2 shows that … Seattle, Washington, September 2005. REFERENCES 1. http://www.cdc.gov/epo/dphsi/phs/syndromic.htm. Accessed April 22, …