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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… only the primary ICD-9-CM diagnosis assigned to the ED visit; however, doing so may underestimate the public health … secondary or tertiary positions. For example, for an ED visit with a primary diagnosis of upper respiratory … the infection triggered the asthma exacerbation and the visit could be attributed to both infection and asthma. …