Characteristics of Inpatient Fever: A Case in Teaching Hospital

Over a 3-year period, fever is always the most frequent icd9 code in inpatient health records including admission and discharge notes, and over 25% accounted for the top 6 frequent ICD9 codes. In this study, we illustrated the fever-related diseases and comorbidity. Given that 81.193% of fever-related ICD9 codes appear within 14 times, the association rules performed for fever-related comorbidity still managed to improve care with 48.077% coverage rate by proper CPOE.