Emerging infectious diseases · 2003 · 98 citations · 2 references
Public HealthEmergency MedicineNeurologyPublic Health SurveillanceSepsisSyndromic SurveillanceChief Complaint SurveillanceClinical Recognition Of SepsisHospital SurveillanceNeurologic EmergenciesNeurologic Syndrome SurveillanceChief Complaint ClassificationChief Complaint IdentificationSyndromic Surveillance Reporting
We compared syndromic categorization of chief complaint and discharge diagnosis for 3,919 emergency department visits to two hospitals in the U.S. National Capitol Region. Agreement between chief complaint and discharge diagnosis was good overall (kappa=0.639), but neurologic and sepsis syndromes had markedly lower agreement than other syndromes (kappa statistics 0.085 and 0.105, respectively).
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