Volume 9, Number 3—March 2003
Dispatch
The National Capitol Region’s Emergency Department Syndromic Surveillance System: Do Chief Complaint and Discharge Diagnosis Yield Different Results?
Elizabeth M. Begier*, Denise Sockwell†, Leslie M. Branch†, John O. Davies-Cole‡, LaVerne H. Jones‡, Leslie Edwards§, Julie A. Casani§, and David Blythe§
Table 2
Emergency department visits by syndromic-coding results, by chief complaint and discharge diagnosis, at two U.S. National Capitol Region hospitals, December 2001a,b
| Syndrome by chief complaint | Syndrome by discharge diagnosis |
||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Death | Sepsis | Rash | Resp | GI | UI | Neur | Other | Total | |
| Death |
6 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
9 |
| Sepsis |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
| Rash |
0 |
0 |
25 |
2 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
25 |
54 |
| Respiratory |
2 |
1 |
0 |
339 |
6 |
18 |
0 |
158 |
524 |
| Gastrointestinal |
0 |
1 |
0 |
18 |
314 |
15 |
1 |
170 |
519 |
| Unspecified infection |
0 |
5 |
0 |
20 |
5 |
56 |
1 |
64 |
151 |
| Neurological |
0 |
2 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
27 |
32 |
| Other |
2 |
7 |
6 |
36 |
38 |
14 |
9 |
2,517 |
2,629 |
| Total | 10 | 18 | 31 | 416 | 363 | 105 | 13 | 2,963 | 3,919 |
aResp, respiratory; GI, gastrointestinal; UI, unspecified infection; Neur, neurologic.
bAreas in bold indicate counts of visits with concordant results for both data types.
