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Clinical decision support at the time of an e-prescription can sustainably decrease unwarranted use of antibiotics for acute respiratory infections
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Microorganisms resistant to antibiotics (ABX) increase the mortality, morbidity and costs of infections. In the absence of a drug development pipeline that can keep pace with the emerging resistancemechanisms, these organisms are expected… read more… are expected to threaten public health for years to come. Because exposure to ABX promotes the development of … are expected to threaten public health for years to come. Because exposure to ABX promotes the development of … et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 19 (Figure, upper panel). The CDS did … -
Automated Surveillance To Detect An Influenza Epidemic: Which Respiratory Syndrome Should We Monitor?
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OBJECTIVE Syndromic surveillance systems (SSS) seek early detection of infectious diseases outbreaks by focusing on pre-diagnostic symptoms. We do not yet know which respiratory syndrome should be monitored for a SSS to discover… read more… yet retained a sensitivity of 69-100% (Models 4 and 6). Com pared to the “respiratory” ICD-9 codeset used by CDC’s … -
Surveillance for acute respiratory infections: should we include all outpatient visits or focus on urgent care areas?
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A comprehensive electronic medical record (EMR) represents a rich source of information that can be harnessed for epidemic surveillance. At this time, however, we do not know how EMR-based data elements should be combined to … read more… H Zheng et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 1616 two non-negated ARI symptoms from … 2 Tokars JI, Burkom H, Xing J, English R, Bloom S, Cox K, et al. Enhancing time-series detection algorithms for … Health Threats Journal H Zheng et al. 2011, 4:s18 www.eht-journal.org page 2/2 1717 … -
Detection of a Vaccine-preventable Reportable Disease: Comparison of Physician Reporting vs. an Electronic Syndromic Surveillance System
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Communicable diseases are underreported by physicians, especially diseases without laboratory tests. The goals of our study were to determine reporting levels for clinical chickenpox, describe clinical data elements common to chickenpox, and assess… read more… system that provides care to over 25% of Denver, CO. All outpatient clinic visits with ICD-9 chickenpox codes … -
Using NLP on VA Electronic Medical Records to Facilitate Epidemiologic Case Investigations
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A major goal of biosurveillance is the timely detection of an infectious disease outbreak. Once a disease has been identified, another very important goal is to find all known cases of the disease to assist public health… read more… to structured data sources. References 1. Chapman WW, Bridewell W, Hanbury P, Cooper GF, Buchanan BG. A simple … -
Automated Detection of GI Syndrome using Structured and Non-Structured Data from the VA EMR
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Objective We performed a gold-standard manual chart review for gastro-intestinal syndrome to evaluate automated detection models based on both structured and non-structured data extracted from the VA … read more… elements relevant to GI syndrome. REFERENCES 1. Chapman WW, Bridewell W, Hanbury P, Cooper GF, Buchanan BG. A simple … -
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… http://umlsks.nlm.nih.gov, 2007(Version 5.0). 2. Chapman WW, et.al. A simple algorithm for identifying negated … -
Text-Processing of VA Clinical Notes to Improve Case Detection Models for Influenza-like Illness
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Objective There were two objectives of this analysis. First, apply text-processing methods to free-text clinician notes extracted from the VA electronic medical record for automated detection of Influenza-Like-Illness. Secondly,… read more… for detection of ILI cases. REFERENCES 1. Chapman WW, Bridewell W, Hanbury P, Cooper GF, Buchanan BG. A simple …