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Predicting Chief Complaints at Triage Time in the Emergency Department
As hospitals increasingly use electronic medical records for research and quality improvement, it is important to provide ways to structure medical data without losing either expressiveness or time. We present a system that helps achieve this goal by building an extended ontology of chief complaints and automatically predicting a patient’s chief complaint, based on their vitals and the nurses’ ...
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INTRODUCTION This study analysed the complaint rates, profile and trend, and complainant profile of patients' complaints received by the National University Hospital Emergency Medicine Department. An earlier ten-year study (1986-1995) was done on the complaint profile. METHODS Records of all patients' complaints, solicited and unsolicited, from January 2002 to December 2003, were retrieved fr...
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Aim: The number of visits to pediatric emergency departments is increasing. To determine the epidemiological profile of patients that are being examined by a pediatrician at emergency departments (EDs) is essential for planning medical care. Materials and Methods: 12.535 pediatric patients that had visited a pediatric emergency department (PED) due to a non-urgent complaint were enrolled. Demog...
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In 7 years between 1982-88, 122 complaints were lodged against the Accident and Emergency department of King's College Hospital. A high percentage mentioned more than one aspect per complaint. Commonest were those regarding attitude (37.7%), missed diagnosis (36.6%), waiting time (32.8%), cursory examination (14.7%) and poor communication (11.5%). These causes of complaint are amenable to impro...
متن کاملDo chief complaints allow targeting of SBIRT in the Emergency Department?
Background Emergency Department (ED)-based Screening, Brief Interventions and Referral for Treatment (SBIRT) for alcohol and drug use has the potential to impact public health greatly. Time and resource constraints limit implementation [1]. Targeted intervention may be more efficient and practical. We hypothesized that we could use chief complaints to identify patients at highest risk of positi...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Nature
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0028-0836,1476-4687
DOI: 10.1038/478280a