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- Title
Self-reported fever and measured temperature in emergency department records used for syndromic surveillance.
- Authors
Kass-Hout, Taha A.; Buckeridge, David; Brownstein, John; Zhiheng Xu; McMurray, Paul; Ishikawa, Charles K. T.; Gunn, Julia; Massoudi, Barbara L.
- Abstract
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.
- Subjects
PUBLIC health; HOSPITAL emergency services; HOSPITAL records; FEVER; SELF-evaluation; ALGORITHMS; TIME series analysis
- Publication
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 2012, Vol 19, Issue 5, p775
- ISSN
1067-5027
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1136/amiajnl-2012-000847