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Evaluation of Emergency Medical Text Processor for Pre-Processing Chief Complaint Data for Syndromic Surveillance
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The goal of this project is to compare automated syn-dromic surveillance queries using raw chief complaints to those pre-processed with the Emergency Medical Text Processor (EMT-P) system.… recently imple- mented at NC BEIPS and is used to clean all ED CCs on a daily basis. METHODS This study analyzed a … NC BEIPS data warehouse. 500 visits were selected that did not meet any of the original automated syndrome queries, … -
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… submitted tri- age notes, which comprised 30% of all visits for those dates. We then manually selected a … visits con- taining negated terms, from 18 of the 19 NC DE- TECT hospitals that provide triage notes (one ED had no … plan to evaluate additional modifications to the NegEx dic- tionary to fine-tune the synonyms and additional re- … -
Evaluating the Validity of ED Visit Data for Biosurveillance
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The North Carolina Disease Event Tracking and Epidemiologic Collection Tool (NC DETECT) receives a designated set of data elements electronically available from 110 emergency departments (EDs) (98%) on at least a daily basis via… read more… of source data and will be complete by September 2008. All records match at least 8 fields; 97.1% at least 10 fields, and 81.6% match all 11 collected fields. For System S, 16 data elements … -
North Carolina Bioterrorism and Emerging Infection Prevention System
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NC BEIPS is a system designed and developed by the NC Division of Public Health (DPH) for early detection of disease and bioterrorism outbreaks or events. It analyzes emergency department (ED) data on a daily basis from 33 (29%) EDs in North… read more… of ED data to DPH, NC BEIPS will soon have data from all 114 EDs. NC BEIPS also receives data on a daily basis … of ED data to DPH, NC BEIPS will soon have data from all 114 EDs. NC BEIPS also receives data on a daily basis … HTTPS. ED medical record numbers and account numbers are de-identified using a one- way HASH algorithm, based on the … -
Emergency Department Data Quality Best Practices
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Data quality for syndromic surveillance extends beyond validating and evaluating syndrome results. Data aggregators and data providers can take additional steps to monitor and ensure the accuracy of the data. In North Carolina,… read more… and continuity of data elements that should not change, i.e. time of visit, discharge disposition, etc. The …