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Multilingual Chief Complaint Classifier
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Free text chief complaints (CCs), which may be recorded in different languages, are an important data source for syndromic surveillance systems. For automated syndromic surveillance, CCs must be classified into predefined syndromic categories to… read more… technical challenges for the development of multilingual CC classifiers. We addressed the technical challenges by first developing a ontology-enhanced CC classifier which exploits semantic relations in the … System (UMLS) to expand the knowledge of a rule-based CC classifier. Based on the ontologyenhanced English CC … -
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… and relevance. The lack of standardization of CC vocabulary poses a major technical challenge to any automatic CC classification approach. This challenge can be partially … through a medical ontology in the context of automatic CC classification for syndromic surveillance. Objective … -
Enhancing Surveillance for Infectious Disease in the US-Mexico Border Region of Arizona
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The Border Infectious Disease Surveillance (BIDS) program was established in 1999 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Mexico Secretariat of Health, following mandates from the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists and… read more… public health collaboration to create an active sentinel-site surveillance of infectious disease among the … and maintain an active binational sentinel hospital-site surveillance system. To enhance border region … and maintain an active binational sentinel hospital- site surveillance system and to enhance border region epide- … -
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 … illness in a pediatric population, Pediatric Emergency Care. 2004 Jun;20(6):335-60 [2] Espino JU, Wagner MM, …