Asatryan Armen

BioSense currently receives demographic and chief complaint data from more than 360 hospitals and text radiology reports from 36 hospitals. Detection of pneumonia is an important as several Category A bioterrorism diseases as well as avian influenza can manifest as pneumonia. Radiology text reports are often received within 1-2 days and may provide a faster way to identify pneumonia than coded diagnoses. Objective To study the performance of a simple keyword search of radiology reports for identifying pneumonia.

The purposes of this study are to validate a keyword-based text parsing algorithm for identifying fractures and compare radiology results with chief complaint and ICD-9 final diagnoses.