Consensus Development of a Modern Ontology of Emergency Department Presenting Problems-The Hierarchical Presenting Problem Ontology (HaPPy).

Journal: Applied clinical informatics
Published Date: May 1, 2019

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: Numerous attempts have been made to create a standardized "presenting problem" or "chief complaint" list to characterize the nature of an emergency department visit. Previous attempts have failed to gain widespread adoption as they were not freely shareable or did not contain the right level of specificity, structure, and clinical relevance to gain acceptance by the larger emergency medicine community. Using real-world data, we constructed a presenting problem list that addresses these challenges.

Authors

  • Steven Horng
    Department of Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA dsontag@cs.nyu.edu.
  • Nathaniel R Greenbaum
    Division of Clinical Informatics, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
  • Larry A Nathanson
    Department of Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.
  • James C McClay
    Department of Emergency Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States.
  • Foster R Goss
    Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Colorado, Aurora, CO, USA.
  • Jeffrey A Nielson
    Northeastern Ohio Medical University, University Hospitals Samaritan Medical Center, Ashland, Ohio, United States.

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