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Disease Profile Development Methodology for Syndromic Surveillance of Biological Threat Agents
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Detection of biological threat agents (BTAs) is critical to the rapid initiation of treatment, infection control measures, and public health emergency response plans. Due to the rarity of BTAs, standard methodology for developing syndrome… read more… 3. www.opensource.gov. 4. hygimia69.blogspot.com. 5. www.expatica.com. 6. www.rki.de. *Emily Iarocci E-mail: … http://www.opensource.gov http://hygimia69.blogspot.com http://www.expatica.com http://www.rki.de Unstructured … -
Application of Natural Language Parsers To Syndromic Surveillance
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This paper describes a methodology for applying natural language parsing (NLP) technologies, originally developed for analyzing biomedical journal articles, to the monitoring of emergency department patient charts for infectious diseases of interest.… and concepts. To overcome a limitation of MMTx – namely lack of negation detection – GUARDIANTM also uses NegEx6. … medical journal articles3,4,5,6; however, patient charts lack the same editorial process and thus commonly exhibit … -
Impact of alternate diagnoses on the accuracy of influenza-like illness case definition used for H1N1 screening in the emergency department
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In June 2009, the CDC defined a confirmed case of H1N1 as a person with an ILI and laboratory confirmed novel influenza A H1N1 virus infection. ILI is defined by the CDC as fever and cough and/or sore throat, in the absence of a known cause… read more… with alternate diag- noses can be difficult because of lack of available data, specifically lab results, which can …