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. 2020 Mar 4;2019:1091–1100.

Table 2:

Topic description, correct diagnosis, triage-urgency, and user query string for each health scenario.

Topic 1: Your 12-year-old daughter had a sudden severe abdominal pain with nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. Her body temperature is 40C.
Diagnosis (Urgency): Appendicitis (Emergency) Query: child stomach ache vomiting diarrhea temperature
Topic 2: Your 18-year-old brother had sever headache and fever for the last 3 days. He also became very sensitive to lights and experienced neck stiffness.
Diagnosis (Urgency): Meningitis (Emergency) Query: migraine fever neck stiffness
Topic 3: Your 65-year-old aunt has had pain and swelling in the right leg for 5 days. She has a history of hypertension and recently hoptialised for pneumonia. After returning home from hospital, she had begun walking, but the right leg became painful, tender, red and swollen.
Diagnosis (Urgency): Deep vein thrombosis (Emergency) Query: hypertension pain swelling leg
Topic 4: Your 18-month-old toddler has had a runny nose, cough and nasal congestion for a week. She also became irritable, sleeping restlessly, and not eating well. She developed a fever overnight. She attends day care and both you and your partner smoke.
Diagnosis (Urgency): Acute otitis media (Non-emergency) Query: baby fever restless smoking
Topic 5: Your 35 year-old aunt experienced nasal congestion for the last 15 days. She also has had facial pain and green nasal discharge for the last 12 days. She has had no fever. She is otherwise healthy, except for mild obesity. She is on no medications, except for an over-the -counter decongestant. She has no drug allergies.
Diagnosis (Urgency): Acute sinusitis (Non-emergency) Query: obese nasal congestion over a week
Topic 6: Your 56-year-old aunt who has a history of smoking had shortness of breath and cough for several days. She also had runny nose since 3 days ago. Further, she mentioned to has a productive cough with white sputum. She denies getting chilled or weight-loss and has not received any relief from over-the-counter cough medicine.
Diagnosis (Urgency): Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (Non-emergency) Query: white sputum coughing smoker
Topic 7: Your 61 year old mother has had a runny nose and cough productive of yellow sputum for 4 days. She initially had fever as high as 38C but those have now resolved. She is otherwise healthy except for high cholesterol. She has no drug allergies.
Diagnosis: Acute bronchitis (Self-care) Query: runny nose and fever yellow sputum
Topic 8: Your friend, a 30-year-old man, has had a painful, swollen right eye for the past day. He experienced minor pain on the eyelid but no any history of trauma, no crusting, and no change in vision. He has no history of allergies or any eye conditions and denies the use of any new soaps, lotions, or creams. His right eye had a localised tenderness and redness.
Diagnosis: Stye (Self-care) Query: swollen red tender eye