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Syndromic Surveillance for Situation Awareness: Understanding Syndrome Performance
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The August 21, 2017 total solar eclipse in Idaho was anticipated to lead to a large influx of visitors in many communities, prompting a widespread effort to assure Idaho was prepared. To support these efforts, the Idaho Syndromic Surveillance… read more… of the visit and includes the chief complaint for the visit. Data on other variables, such as diagnosis codes, are … updated by subsequent messages for several days after the visit. Chief complaint (CC) text and discharge diagnosis … variables adversely affects timely syndrome match of visits. Because our plan included development of new … -
Free-Text Mining to Improve Syndrome Definition Matching Across Emergency Departments
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Standard syndrome definitions for ED visits in ESSENCE rely on chief complaints. Visits with more words in the chief complaint field are more likely to match syndrome definitions. While using ESSENCE, we observed geographic differences in chief… read more… Standard syndrome definitions for ED visits in ESSENCE rely on chief complaints. Visits with more words in the chief complaint field are more … -
Hypothermia/Cold Exposure - Idaho Division of Public Health
Content Type: Syndrome
This query is used to assess trends in hypothermia or cold exposure in emergency department visits in ESSENCE. The query captures cold exposure, hypothermia, and frost bite using chief complaint, triage note, and discharge diagnosis code (ICD-… read more… in hypothermia or cold exposure in emergency department visits in ESSENCE. The query captures cold exposure, … in hypothermia or cold exposure in emergency department visits in ESSENCE. The query captures cold exposure, …