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Do Women Really Complain More than Men? Looking at Gastrointestinal Chief Complaints in Boston
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The purpose of syndromic surveillance is the early identification of disease outbreaks. Classification of chief complaints into syndromes and the type of statistics used for aberration detection can affect outbreak detection sensitivity and… read more… GISG but dilute the aberration detection ability of Gi1 due to high daily volume. We determined the sensitivity and … Female Sensitivity Specificity Sensitivity Specificity All GIC (n= 2795) 71% 96% 79% 93% Gi1 (n=881) 75% 96% 84% … -
Using the Emergency Medical Text Processor to Standardize Chief Complaints in Boston's Syndromic Surveillance System
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Abbreviation, misspellings, and site specific terminology may misclassify chief complaints syndromes. The Emergency Medical Text Processor (EMT-P) is system that cleans emergency department chief complaints and returns standard terms.… read more… (BPHC) syndromic surveillance system receives daily, de- identified patient-visit data from 10 hospital emer- …