Using age, triage score, and disposition data from emergency department electronic records to improve Influenza-like illness surveillance | Zendy

Noémie Savard | Zendy; Lucie Bédard | Zendy; R. W. Allard | Zendy; David L. Buckeridge | Zendy

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Using age, triage score, and disposition data from emergency department electronic records to improve Influenza-like illness surveillance

Author(s) -

Noémie Savard,

Lucie Bédard,

R. W. Allard,

David L. Buckeridge

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

journal of the american medical informatics association

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.614

H-Index - 150

eISSN - 1527-974X

pISSN - 1067-5027

DOI - 10.1093/jamia/ocu002

Subject(s) - triage , medicine , emergency department , confidence interval , emergency medicine , influenza like illness , early warning score , pediatrics , medical emergency , virus , virology , psychiatry

Markers of illness severity are increasingly captured in emergency department (ED) electronic systems, but their value for surveillance is not known. We assessed the value of age, triage score, and disposition data from ED electronic records for predicting influenza-related hospitalizations.

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