Description
To determine whether preprocessing chief complaints before automatically classifying them into syndromic categories improves classification performance.
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Travers Debbie
Description
COPD is a prevalent chronic disease among older adults; exacerbations often result in ED visits and subsequent hospital admissions. A portion of such patients return to the ED within a few days or weeks. In this study, we investigated patterns of hospital admissions and short-term return visits resulting from COPD-related ED visits.
Objective
To investigate hospital admissions and short-term return visits re- sulting from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)-related emergency department (ED) visits.
In this webinar Dr. Travers will review two tools developed at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, which aid in processing textual CC’s and triage notes in support of syndromic surveillance. Textual data from emergency departments (EDs) is a common source of data for syndromic surveillance. In the last few years the adoption of electronic health records systems in EDs has improved the availability of timely electronic data from EDs for secondary uses however using these data for syndrome surveillance can still be problematic.