EMT-P was designed to address the most common patterns in natural language chief complaint (CC) entries from the emergency department (ED). For example, in the ED, the abbreviation CP most often means chest pain (as opposed to cerebral palsy or cyclophosphamide/prednisone), so the acronym expansion module replaces CP with chest pain.

There will always be some natural language CC entries that are not addressed by EMT-P, because they are infrequent and even obscure. Here are some of the favorites we have come across in our work with CC data:

tvfellonhim
assault jumped by 8 guys
something is wrong
hit in lip bungie cord
pt states she has clicking in her head
tacky
head injurt
stuck gravel up nose
other
side pain in legs
massive in knee
light to moderate
oversleep
stomachulcer
pt worse
dipuria
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