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In Search of a Controlled Vocabulary for Emergency Department Chief Complaint: A Comparison of Four Published Chief Complaint Lists
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The lack of a standardized vocabulary for recording CC complicates the collection, aggregation, and analysis of CC for any purpose, but especially for real-time surveillance of patterns of illness and injury. The need for a controlled CC vocabulary… read more… We found four published CC lists and included them all [1-4]. We used the top 20 ‘Reasons for Visits’ (RFV) from the 2005 Emergency … terms with each of the CC lists were assessed. This study did not qualify for IRB approval or exemption. RESULTS 25% … -
Access to and use of syndromic surveillance information at the local health department level
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Syndromic surveillance data have been widely shown to be useful to large health departments. Use at smaller local health departments (LHDs) has rarely been described, and the effectiveness of various methods of delivering syndromic… read more… data and information in North Carolina are available to all local public health staff by several routes. This report … data and in- formation in North Carolina are available to all local public health staff by several routes. This report … to public health stakeholders and partners (four of 14 (26%)). LHD staff obtained syndromic surveillance information …