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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… patient-centered, equitable, and timely care. The CQM for influenza immunization measures the percentage of … patient-centered, equitable, and timely care. The CQM for influenza immunization measures the percentage of … -
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… biosurveillance. Emerg Health Threats J. 2009;3:e3. 2. www.ecdc.europa.eu. 3. www.opensource.gov. 4. hygimia69.blogspot.com. 5. www.expatica.com. 6. www.rki.de. *Emily Iarocci … -
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… Rumoro et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 76 may affect regional public health … 1 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. http://www.cdc.gov/. 2 Waddell MJ, Doseck SM, Silva JC, Rumoro DP. … Health Threats Journal D Rumoro et al. 2011, 4:s110 www.eht-journal.org page 2/2 77 … -
Case Definition for Real-Time Surveillance of Influenza-like Illness
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention case definition of influenza-like illness (ILI) as fever with cough and/or sore throat casts a wide net resulting in lower sensitivity which can have major implications on public health… read more… of influenza surveillance in the United States. http://www.cdc.gov/ flu/weekly/overview.htm. Accessed January 20, … 2011, 4: 11123 - DOI: 10.3402/ehtj.v4i0.11123 http://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/overview.htm http://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/overview.htm 1-25 ehtj11702 ehtj_toc …