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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… percentage of patients aged 6 months and older seen for a visit between October 1 and March 31 who received (or … percentage of patients aged 6 months and older seen for a visit between October 1 and March 31 who received (or … -
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… clinics and emergency departments. However, the lack of standardization of these data sources may lead to … clinics and emergency departments. However, the lack of standardization of these data sources may lead to … -
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… for syndromic surveillance systems. However, the lack of standardization for the content in chief complaint … for syndromic surveillance systems. However, the lack of standardization for the content in chief complaint … -
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 …