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Ontology-Based Automatic Chief Complaints Classification for Syndromic Surveillance
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Free-text emergency department triage chief complaints (CCs) are a popular data source used by many syndromic surveillance systems because of their timeliness, availability, and relevance. The lack of standardization of CC vocabulary poses a major… read more… of their timeliness, availability, and relevance. The lack of standardization of CC vocabulary poses a major … of using a medical ontology to classify free-text chief com- plaints into syndrome categories. BACKGROUND Free-text … of their timeliness, availability, and relevance. The lack of standardization of CC vocabulary poses a major … -
An Emergency Department Based Syndromic Surveillance System for Meningitis and Encephalitis, Maricopa County, AZ 2004
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We developed, implemented and evaluated Meningitis and Encephalitis (M/E) syndrome case definitions based on electronic Emergency Department (ED) chief complaint data; and assessed their ability to detect aberrations that correspond with M/E… read more… for 570 (70%) of these cases. Abstracted data included ED visit date and time, age, gender, chief complaint and …