chief complaint

The principal reason for a person seeking medical attention; CCs include acute abdomen, colicky pain, crushing chest pain, hip fracture, etc. See Complaint, Minor complaint.

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chief com·plaint

(CC) ( chēf kŏm-plānt' ) The primary symptom that a patient states as the reason for seeking medical care. Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions and Nursing © Farlex 2012

chief com·plaint

(C.C.) ( chēf kŏm-plānt' ) Primary symptom that a patient states as the reason for seeking dental care. Medical Dictionary for the Dental Professions © Farlex 2012

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Headache is chief complaint in 4.4% of consultations in primary care7 and 30% of neurology outpatient consultations8-9.

Despite these limitations, our study is novel as we systematically investigated the clinical profiles of patients with depression and anxiety with a chief complaint of headache in several Chinese general neurological clinics.

To determine if BioSense ED visit data could be used to predict norovirus season markers (i.e., onset, peak, and end), we compared weekly diarrhea visits mapped by chief complaint as a proportion of all visits (for all ages) with weekly norovirus outbreak data from NORS for the 2009-2011 seasons on a national level.

Services--Do they provide a wide range of services similar to those required by the UCAOA, and can they at least provide the services necessary to treat the top five chief complaints determined by the ED chart analysis?

One registered Health Information Manager (HIM) typed the chief complaint and the present illness recorded in the paper-based medical records in Microsoft Visual Foxpro.

The patient's chief complaint was painful intercourse and she elected to proceed with a resection.

A nonparametric test (Mann-Whitney Utest) was performed to assess any differences between groups in terms of age, chief complaint , and histopathologic diagnosis.

Study participants were medically stable English-speaking adolescents aged 13-17 who presented to the pediatric ED between February 2009 and February 2010 for nonpsychiatric chief complaints . The participants were screened with the validated 5-item Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders, Child and Parent versions (SCARED-C &-P).

7, 2009 (CENS)--In line with the so-called "folk economy" being trumpeted by Premier Wu Den-yih, the Executive Yuan (the Cabinet) plans to construct low-cost housing units, so as to solve the problem of exorbitant housing prices, a chief complaint among local populace.

According to National Psoriasis Foundation members, itching ranks second only to scaling as sufferers' chief complaint .

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