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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
    … neighboring states. These problems were compounded by the lack of an effective HUS treatment, causing health officials … as point source outbreaks. Querying preestablished ED visit, coroner death, and 911 call feeds can provide a … which should inform prescription practices. There is lack of demand and reliance on drug sensitivity tests by the …
  • 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 …