Gout Emergency Department Chief Complaint Corpora

The Gout Emergency Department Chief Complaint Corpora (GED3C) consists of 2
corpora of free text triage nurse chief complaints (up to 282 characters in
length) collected from 2019 to 2020 at an academic medical center in the Deep
South. The smaller corpus "GOUT-CC-2019-CORPUS" consists of 300 chief
complaints from 2019 selected by the presence of the keyword "gout". The
larger corpus "GOUT-CC-2020-CORPUS" contains 8037 chief complaints collected
from a single month in 2020. No other selection criteria (gout or otherwise)
was used to generate GOUT-CC-2020-CORPUS, making this corpus representative
for medical conditions of interest in the underlying urban Black majority
Emergency Department patient population.

We anticipate this corpus being useful in the development of Emergency
Department alerting algorithms for gout. Both GOUT-CC-2019-CORPUS and GOUT-
CC-2020-CORPUS were annotated with respect to predicted gout flare status as
determined retrospectively by manual review of the chief complaint. A subset
of patients with these chief complaints underwent chart review by
rheumatologists to verify gout flare status guided by the Gaffo criteria.
These corpora may be useful to researchers at other institutions who want to
develop or validate existing alerting algorithms at a 2nd institution. These
corpora are also available for use in masked language model development. Its
terse, abbreviation-rich content sets it apart from more lengthy clinical text
and to our knowledge this is the only chief complaint corpus publicly
available.