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The Frontlines of Medicine Project progress report: standardized communication of emergency department triage data
Edward N Barthell1, Dominik Aronsky, Dennis G Cochrane
1Department of Emergency Medicine, St. Mary's Hospital Ozaukee, Mequon, WI, USA. ebarthell@infinityhealthcare.com
Abstract:
This article reports progress since the original publication of the Frontlines of Medicine Project. This project is a collaborative effort of emergency medicine (including emergency medical services and clinical toxicology), public health, other government agencies involved in health care and preparedness, law enforcement, and informatics to develop nonproprietary, standardized methods for reporting emergency department patient data. These data may be used for a variety of public health or clinical care initiatives, including syndromic surveillance for chemical and biological terrorism. This article reviews the outcome of the Project meeting in April 2002. Also, the article describes a Delphi Survey process to define the data elements in a triage surveillance report and to define a set of codified values for the chief complaint data element. An initial retrospective validation of the codified chief complaint values is provided, and prospective study of the proposed Frontlines' standards is encouraged.
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