Self-reported fever and measured temperature in emergency department records used for syndromic surveillance: Table 1

Autor:	Paul McMurray, Barbara Massoudi, Charles Ishikawa, Zhiheng Xu, Julia Gunn, Taha A. Kass-Hout, John S. Brownstein, David L. Buckeridge
Rok vydání:	2012
Předmět:	medicine.medical_specialty business.industry Public health medicine Febrile illness Health Informatics Medical emergency Population health Emergency department medicine.disease business Triage
Zdroj:	Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 19:775-776
ISSN:	1527-974X 1067-5027
DOI:	10.1136/amiajnl-2012-000847
Popis:	Many public health agencies monitor population health using syndromic surveillance, generally employing information from emergency department (ED) visit records. When combined with other information, objective evidence of fever may enhance the accuracy with which surveillance systems detect syndromes of interest, such as influenza-like illness. This study found that patient chief complaint of self-reported fever was more readily available in ED records than measured temperature and that the majority of patients with an elevated temperature recorded also self-reported fever. Due to its currently limited availability, we conclude that measured temperature is likely to add little value to self-reported fever in syndromic surveillance for febrile illness using ED records.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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