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Chief Complaint Preprocessing Evaluated on Statistical and Non-Statistical Classifiers
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To determine whether preprocessing chief complaints before automatically classifying them into syndromic categories improves classification performance.… (85%) in preprocessing chief complaints. However, CCP did not exhibit an overall improvement in clas- sification … -
Identifying Contextual Features to Improve the Performance of an Influenza-Like Illness Text Classifier
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To understand the types of false positive cases identified by an Influenza-like illness (ILI) text classifier by measuring the prevalence of ILI-related concepts that are negated, hypothetical, include explicit mention of temporality, experienced by… read more… note documents. False positive extractions may be due to concepts in the text being assigned to the patient … -
Monitoring Febrile Syndromes from Chief Complaints: Is the Information There?
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There exists no standard set of syndromes for syndromic surveillance, and available syndromic case definitions demonstrate substantial heterogeneity of findings constituting the definition. Many syndromic case definitions require… read more… often use chief complaints as input. Our objective was to de- termine whether chief complaints accurately repre- sent …