Patient Self-Report Superior to Electronic Medical Record Abstraction for Identifying Positive COVID-19 Symptoms at Illness Onset

• Main Authors: Gretchen L. Mockler, MD (Author), Samantha P. Novotny, BS (Author), Wei Hou, PhD (Author), Yuhang Liu, MS (Author), Elinor R. Schoenfeld, PhD (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2022-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Introduction: Most initial COVID-19 research focused on hospitalized patients. Presenting symptomatology in the outpatient setting was poorly characterized, making it difficult for primary care physicians to predict which patients would require hospitalization. The purpose of this study was to chara...