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Reverse Engineering of a Syndrome Definition for Influenza
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We report here on the use of the North Carolina Bioterrorism and Emerging Infection Prevention System (NC BEIPS, www.ncbeips.org) to reverse engineer a syndrome definition of influenza for the purpose of influenza surveillance. -
Situational Awareness Using Web-based Annotation and Custom Reporting
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While early event detection systems aim to detect disease outbreaks before traditional means, following up on the many alerts generated by these systems can be time-consuming and a drain on limited resources. Authorized users at local, regional… read more -
Improving Negation Processing in Triage Notes
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Emergency Department (ED) triage notes are clinical notes that expand upon the chief complaint, and are included in the AHIC minimum dataset for biosurveillance.1 Clinical notes can improve the accuracy of keyword-based syndromes but require… read more -
Improving System Ability to Identify Symptom Complexes in Free-Text Data
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Text-based syndrome case definitions published by the Center for Disease Control (CDC)1 form the basis for the syndrome queries used by the North Carolina Disease Event Tracking and Epidemiologic Collection Tool (NC DETECT). Keywords within these… read more -
In Search of a Controlled Vocabulary for Emergency Department Chief Complaint: A Comparison of Four Published Chief Complaint Lists
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The lack of a standardized vocabulary for recording CC complicates the collection, aggregation, and analysis of CC for any purpose, but especially for real-time surveillance of patterns of illness and injury. The need for a controlled CC vocabulary… read more -
Securing protected health information in NC DETECT
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NC DETECT receives daily data files from emergency departments (ED), the statewide EMS data collection system, the statewide poison center, and veterinary laboratory test results. Included in these data are elements, which may contain Protected… read more -
Animal bite surveillance using NC DETECT emergency department visit data
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Animal bites may have potentially devastating consequences, including physical and emotional trauma, infection, rabies exposure, hospitalization, and, rarely, death. NC law requires animal bites be reported to local health directors. However,… read more -
Defining emergency department asthma visits for public health surveillance
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Tracking emergency department (ED) asthma visits is an important part of asthma surveillance, as ED visits can be preventable and may represent a failure of asthma control efforts. When using limited clinical ED datasets for secondary purposes such… read more