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  • Can Chief Complaints Identify Patients with Febrile Syndromes?

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     Syndromic surveillance systems often classify patients into syndromic categories based on emergency department (ED) chief complaints. There exists no standard set of syndromes for syndromic surveillance, and the available syndromic case… read more
    … database since 1990, including free-text triage chief com- plaints, dictated and transcribed ED reports, and coded … sented by the chief complaint and whether or not the com- plaint indicated that the patient had a fever. He … and febrile syndromic categories. Comparing chief com- plaint classification against the criterion standard …
  • Challenges in adapting an natural language processing system for real-time surveillance

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    We are developing a Bayesian surveillance system for realtime surveillance and characterization of outbreaks that incorporates a variety of data elements, including free-text clinical reports. An existing natural language processing (… read more
    … Pittsburgh, PA, USA E-mail: wendy.w.chapman@gmail.com Objective Adapt an existing natural language processing … caused less by NLP technicalities than they are by the lack of a robust environment for NLP engineering, …