Modeling emergency department visit patterns for infectious disease complaints: results and application to disease surveillance

Automated linking of free-text complaint

Automated linking of free-text complaints to reason-for-visit categories and International Classification of Diseases diagnoses in emergency department patient record databases

✍ Frank C. Day; David L. Schriger; Michael La 📂 Article 📅 2004 🏛 Elsevier Science 🌐 English ⚖ 158 KB

Study objective: The use of the International Classification of Diseases system to describe emergency department (ED) case mix has disadvantages. We therefore developed computer algorithms that recognize a combination of words, word fragments, and word patterns to link free-text complaint fields to