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  • The Impact of Documentation Style on Influenza-Like Illness Rates in the Emergency Department

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    In recent years, the threat of pandemic influenza has drawn extensive attention to the development and implementation of syndromic surveillance systems for early detection of ILI. Emergency department (ED) data are key components for syndromic… read more
    … of standardization for the content in chief complaint (CC) free-text fields may make it challenging to use these … of standardization for the content in chief complaint (CC) free-text fields may make it challenging to use these …
  • Utility of Natural Language Processing for Clinical Quality Measures Reporting

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    Clinical quality measures (CQMs) are tools that help measure and track the quality of health care services. Measuring and reporting CQMs helps to ensure that our health care system is delivering effective, safe, efficient, patient-centered,… read more
    … tools that help measure and track the quality of health care services. Measuring and reporting CQMs helps to ensure that our health care system is delivering effective, safe, efficient, … percentage of patients aged 6 months and older seen for a visit between October 1 and March 31 who received (or …
  • 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
    … when there was a more defined purpose to reporting ED visits and admissions (e.g., The Republican National … or sending emergency department (ED) chief complaint (CC) data as structured variables without including the … surveillance and survey data on the value of free-text CC to public health practice. On January 31, 2011, ISDS, in …
  • Adaptation of GUARDIAN for Syndromic Surveillance During the NATO Summit

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    Special event driven syndromic surveillance is often initiated by public health departments with limited time for development of an automated surveillance framework, which can result in heavy reliance on frontline care providers and potentially miss… read more
    … which can result in heavy reliance on frontline care providers and potentially miss early signs of emerging … which can result in heavy reliance on frontline care providers and potentially miss early signs of emerging …
  • Relationship Between Baseline Influenza-like Illness Rates And Healthcare Settings

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    The primary goal of syndromic surveillance is early recognition of disease trends, in order to identify and control infectious disease outbreaks, such as influenza. For surveillance of influenza-like illness (ILI), public health departments receive… read more
    … (CH), and neighboring adult and pediatric primary care clinics. 11 views Submitted by Magou on Tue, 08/08/2017 … (CH), and neighboring adult and pediatric primary care clinics. …
  • Technical Challenges of Syndromic Surveillance System Deployment in a Health Information Exchange

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    Adoption of electronic medical records is on the rise, due to the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act and meaningful use incentives. Simultaneously, numerous HIE initiatives provide data sharing flexibility to… read more
    … provide data sharing flexibility to streamline clinical care. Due to the consolidated data availability in … provide data sharing flexibility to streamline clinical care. Due to the consolidated data availability in …
  • 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.
    … in our testing, we increased Java’s memory allocation (heap size) setting to 512MB in order to prevent excessively …
  • 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
    … at an emergency department of a large urban tertiary care academic medical center. During this period, 32,922 …