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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jun 29.
Published in final edited form as: J Biomed Inform. 2009 Feb 21;42(5):781–789. doi: 10.1016/j.jbi.2009.02.004

Table 6.

Selected findings relevant to core clinical problems. Findings located only in the “review of systems” section are excluded from this list.

Disease name Student 1 (asserted) Student 1 (negated) Student 2 (asserted) Student 2 (negated) Student 3 (asserted) Student 3 (negated) Total asserted Total negated
Fever 47 41 79 29 51 23 177 93
Skin rash 34 141 52 134 52 74 138 349
Vomiting 11 6 72 19 20 17 103 42
Chest pain 9 14 45 2 45 6 99 22
Cough 18 11 27 5 32 5 77 21
Edema 11 43 35 74 21 36 67 153
Constipation 10 9 21 16 26 7 57 32
Leukocytosis 6 0 23 0 23 1 52 1
Diarrhea 6 4 22 15 21 5 49 24
Shortness of breath 7 3 24 2 15 5 46 10
Back pain 21 5 16 4 6 0 43 9
Dysuria 13 7 22 28 5 5 40 40
Abdominal pain 6 2 17 3 12 4 35 9
Wheezing 8 39 10 12 15 2 33 53
Pruritis 6 0 16 5 11 2 33 7
Dyspnea 11 15 9 1 12 2 32 18
Erythema 6 2 16 20 7 2 29 24
Syncope 4 3 14 8 9 1 27 12
Cardiac murmurs 0 0 15 67 9 22 24 89
Jaundice 2 10 6 80 12 45 20 135
Crackles 0 40 15 2 5 3 20 45
Productive cough 3 2 6 0 10 0 19 2
Tachycardia 1 0 8 0 8 0 17 0
Hematuria 2 2 3 10 7 1 12 13
Hematochezia 3 5 4 1 5 1 12 7
Nuchal rigidity 1 7 2 26 4 14 7 47
Hepatomegaly 0 6 0 30 2 32 2 68