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Infection Control Practitioner Use of NC DETECT
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The UNC Department of Emergency Medicine (UNC DEM) conducted an online survey to better understand the surveillance needs of Infection Control Practitioners (ICPs) in North Carolina and solicit feedback on the utility of the North Carolina Disease… read more… of the reports available to ICPs and provide targeted training on the specific surveillance needs of ICPs. In … Program for Infection Control and Epidemiology (SPICE). Training should focus on the tools in NC DETECT that assist … -
Access to and use of syndromic surveillance information at the local health department level
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Syndromic surveillance data have been widely shown to be useful to large health departments. Use at smaller local health departments (LHDs) has rarely been described, and the effectiveness of various methods of delivering syndromic… read more… of syndromic surveillance data, as well as provision of training, may increase use of this information at the local … -
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… of negation. The final sample included 177 visits con- taining negated terms, from 18 of the 19 NC DE- TECT …