Informing the Alfred Registry for Emergency Care Project: An analysis of presenting complaint documentation in an emergency department.

2022-08

White, Matthew

O'Reilly, Gerard M

Mitchell, Rob D

Noonan, Michael

Hiller, Ryan

Mitra, Biswadev

Paton, Andrew

Pristupa, Kathryn

Luckhoff, Carl

Smit, De Villiers

Cameron, Peter A

emergency

health information

presenting complaint

quality

registry

Journal Article

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9435-4947

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5763-917X

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6422-3348

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0508-2450

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1443-557X

10.1111/1742-6723.13984

To assess the feasibility of an ED presenting complaint (PC) tool that categorised all ED PCs into 10 categories. A retrospective analysis of 1445 consecutive patient encounters was conducted. The primary outcome was the frequency of use of the 10 PC categories. Of the 1203 patient encounters meeting inclusion criteria, the PC tool was completed by clinicians in 574 (47.7%). When completed, the tool's 10 options were selected for most presentations (72.3%). The PC tool captured the majority of presenting complaints in 10 categories. External validation is recommended.

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Emergency Medicine Australasia : EMA 2022; 34(4): 620-622

Emergency medicine Australasia : EMA