Sentence examples for complaint fields from inspiring English sources
For surveillance purposes, text analyses have been applied to limited data sources within the EMR, including "chief complaint" fields [34], [35], [36], [37], [38], laboratory or imaging reports [34], [35], [38], [39], [40] or dictated hospital discharge summaries [41], [42].
Chief complaint fields containing keywords but not involving heat-related illness, i.e., 'applied heat to swollen ankle', were eliminated.
The chief complaint field is not uniform it contains a mix of lay language, technical language, misspellings, and abbreviations.
ED SS relies on the querying of the chief complaint text field for key words that reflect injury as the cause for the ED visit and is, therefore, reliant on the quality and completeness of chief complaint field.
We hypothesize that some injury cases are described by injury outcome (e.g., laceration, fracture) rather than external cause (e.g., fall) in the chief complaint field.
Text entered in the chief complaint field does not always match the final clinical diagnosis (i.e., the chief complaint may not be reflective of the ailment that is treated in the ED).
However, one major issue with the chief complaint field is a high percentage of missing data for Staten Island hospitals; two of the three Staten Island hospitals currently provide chief complaint data for only 26% of ED visits.
We developed an algorithm that scans the free-text chief complaint field for character strings indicative of CVD events.
Searching the chief complaint field for keywords identified 119 and 188 records in 2010 and 2011, respectively.
Additional cases were identified from the chief complaint field using the SAS INDEX function to locate the following words within the text field: 'HEAT'HEATEDTED'DEHYDRATEDTED' and 'HYPERTHERMIA'HYPERTHERMIA
Similarly, all paediatric pedestrian events in the EDIS database were extracted using the presenting complaint field, and this field was then further manually interrogated for relevant cases.
