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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 … the first 20 RFV so a more extensive evaluation of RFV may have different results. We found: 1) all lists … 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… staff from a stratified random sample of LHDs during May through September 2009. The survey captured information … to public health stakeholders and partners (four of 14 (26%)). LHD staff obtained syndromic surveillance information … from patient!hospi- tal records; 22 of 85 LHDs (26%) had access to a PHE. The information distributed by …