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Identifying Emerging Novel Outbreaks In Textual Emergency Department Data
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Typical approaches to monitoring ED data classify cases into pre-defined syndromes and then monitor syndrome counts for anomalies. However, syndromes cannot be created to identify every possible cluster of cases of relevance to public health. To… read more… would not be detected by existing syndromes. Clusters may be based on symptoms, events, place names, arrival time, … The NC DPH dataset describes 198,511 de-identified ED visits over one year at 3 North Carolina hospitals. The data … The NC DPH dataset describes 198,511 de-identified ED visits over one year at 3 North Carolina hospitals. The data …