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Defining emergency department asthma visits for public health surveillance
Content Type: Abstract
Tracking emergency department (ED) asthma visits is an important part of asthma surveillance, as ED visits can be preventable and may represent a failure of asthma control efforts. When using limited clinical ED datasets for secondary purposes such… read more… Tracking emergency department (ED) asthma visits is an important part of asthma surveillance, as ED visits can be preventable and may represent a failure of … only the primary ICD-9-CM diagnosis assigned to the ED visit; however, doing so may underestimate the public health …