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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 using a medical ontology to classify free-text chief com- plaints into syndrome categories. BACKGROUND Free-text … syndrome category using a rule inference engine, JESS (www.jessrules.com). RESULTS We have conducted an initial … evaluation of our approach using a CC dataset col- lected from one hospital in the State of Arizona. Early … -
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… CCs collected from a hospital in Phoenix and Chinese CCs col- lected from a hospital in Taipei, Taiwan, shows … -
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… Symposium. 2001; 164-8. [3] Ivanov O, Wagner MM, Chapman WW, Olszewski RT, Accuracy of three classifiers of acute …