Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 46, Issue 5 , Pages 445-455 , November 2005

Classification of Emergency Department Chief Complaints Into 7 Syndromes: A Retrospective Analysis of 527,228 Patients

  • Wendy W. Chapman, PhD

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    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress for reprints: Wendy W. Chapman, PhD, Center for Biomedical Informatics, Suite 8084 Forbes Tower, 200 Lothrop Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213; 412-647-7113, fax 412-647-7190
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  • John N. Dowling, MD, MS
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  • Michael M. Wagner, MD, PhD

Received 25 August 2004 ,Revised 4 March 2005 ,Accepted 14 April 2005.

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 Supervising editor: Jonathan M. Teich, MD, PhDAuthor contributions: WWC, JND, and MMW conceived and designed the study. MMW obtained research funding. JND was the medical consultant who designed the criterion standard and performed the error analysis. WWC collected and analyzed the data. WWC performed the statistical analysis of the data with input from JND and MMW. WWC drafted the manuscript, and all authors contributed substantially to its revision. WWC takes responsibility for the paper as a whole.

PII: S0196-0644(05)00464-6

doi: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2005.04.012

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 46, Issue 5 , Pages 445-455 , November 2005

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