Debra Travers

Conference The American journal of emergency medicine · September 2013 PurposeThe aim of this study was to describe population-based patterns of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)-related emergency department (ED) visits.MethodsWe analyzed all COPD-related ED visits made by North Carolina residents ... Full text Cite

Toward vocabulary control for chief complaint.

Conference Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine · May 2008 The chief complaint (CC) is the data element that documents the patient's reason for visiting the emergency department (ED). The need for a CC vocabulary has been acknowledged at national meetings and in multiple publications, but to our knowledge no group ... Full text Cite

What is an event? domain constraints for temporal analysis of chief complaints and triage notes

Conference Proceedings of the Asist Annual Meeting · January 1, 2007 In this paper we present preliminary results of a study of events represented in portions of the Emergency Department (ED) patient record. An advantage to working in such a specific domain is that we can use domain knowledge to reveal events that are not e ... Full text Cite

Issues in the development of a thesaurus for patients' Chief Complaints in the Emergency Department

Conference Proceedings of the Asist Annual Meeting · November 1, 2004 When a patient visits the Emergency Department (ED), the reason the patient is seeking care is recorded as the Chief Complaint (CC). Beyond its role in the patient's care, there is interest in the CC for secondary uses. Clinicians and epidemiologists can u ... Full text Cite