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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… included them all [1-4]. We used the top 20 ‘Reasons for Visits’ (RFV) from the 2005 Emergency Department Sum- mary … other (lacerations, accident nos, and injury other and un- specified type – head, neck, and face). CONCLUSION The … Med 2001; 8(10):980-989. [5]Schneider, D ‘A Reason for Visit Classification for Ambulatory Care’ US DHEW … -
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… of Epidemiology, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC, USA E-mail: erika.samoff@unc.edu Objective To characterize use of …