Journal article
Method to Electronically Collect Emergency Department Data
Annals of emergency medicine, Vol.28(2), pp.213-219
1996
DOI: 10.1016/S0196-0644(96)70064-1
PMID: 8759587
Abstract
Study objective: To describe the development and completeness of an electronic injury-surveillance system, the Rural Injury Surveillance System (RISS).
Methods: The emergency departments of nine rural Iowa hospitals submitted information on all patients treated from May 1993 through June 1994.
Results: The EDs submitted information on 23,594 patients with 32,445 different injury, disease, or follow-up visits. On the basis of comparison with the handwritten ED logbook, 90% of visits were also available in the RISS. Of the visits recorded in the RISS, 99% were also recorded in the logbook. The proportion of missing diagnostic codes decreased from a high of 22.6% in May 1993 to 8.1% in June 1994. The proportion of missing external cause codes was about 25% at the end of the study period. The proportion of missing industry and occupational codes was less than 5% at the end of the study period.
Conclusion: Our findings show that complete, computerized, ED-based injury surveillance in rural EDs is possible and should be developed further. [Schootman M, Zwerling C, Miller ER, Torner JC, Fuortes L, Lynch CF, Merchant JA, Peterson TD: Method to electronically collect emergency department data.
Ann Emerg Med August 1996;28:213-219.]
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Method to Electronically Collect Emergency Department Data
- Creators
- Mario SchootmanCraig ZwerlingElizabeth R MillerJames C TornerLaurence FuortesCharles F LynchJames A MerchantTimothy D Peterson
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Annals of emergency medicine, Vol.28(2), pp.213-219
- DOI
- 10.1016/S0196-0644(96)70064-1
- PMID
- 8759587
- NLM abbreviation
- Ann Emerg Med
- ISSN
- 0196-0644
- eISSN
- 1097-6760
- Publisher
- Mosby, Inc
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 1996
- Academic Unit
- Occupational and Environmental Health; Epidemiology; Surgery; Injury Prevention Research Center; Neurosurgery; Internal Medicine
- Record Identifier
- 9984214817402771
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