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  • Development of public health communication tools using open source methods

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    Secure and confidential exchange of information is the cornerstone of public health practice. Often, this exchange has to occur between public health agencies across jurisdictions. Examples include notification of reportable diseases… read more
    … requiring approved users to remember multiple sites and logins/passwords. The goal of this project was to … 3693 secure messages that have been exchanged and the site has been accessed over 12,205 times since January 2009. … requiring approved users to remember multiple sites and logins/passwords. The goal of this project was to …
  • Clinical decision support at the time of an e-prescription can sustainably decrease unwarranted use of antibiotics for acute respiratory infections

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    Microorganisms resistant to antibiotics (ABX) increase the mortality, morbidity and costs of infections. In the absence of a drug development pipeline that can keep pace with the emerging resistancemechanisms, these organisms are expected… read more
    … promotes the development of bacterial resistance, health care providers have long been urged to avoid … and S DeLisle1,2 1Veterans Administration Maryland Health Care System, Baltimore, MD, USA; 2Departments of Medicine … and introduced on January 2003 at the Maryland VA site (Intervention) but not at the Utah VA site (control). …
  • Automated Detection of GI Syndrome using Structured and Non-Structured Data from the VA EMR

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    Objective We performed a gold-standard manual chart review for gastro-intestinal syndrome to evaluate automated detection models based on both structured and non-structured data extracted from the VA … read more
    … MSc3, Matthew H Samore, MD 1 1VA Salt Lake City Health Care system and the Department of Medicine, University of … METHODS We randomly sampled 15,377 of 253,818 outpatient visits to the VA Maryland Health Care system (VAMHCS) and … Additionally, we searched for documentation on the index visit day of fever > 37.8ºC. RESULTS The ESSENCE and …
  • Using NLP on VA Electronic Medical Records to Facilitate Epidemiologic Case Investigations

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    A major goal of biosurveillance is the timely detection of an infectious disease outbreak. Once a disease has been identified, another very important goal is to find all known cases of the disease to assist public health… read more
    … MSc5,Matthew H. Samore, MD1,2,6 1VA Salt Lake City Health Care System, 2 Internal Medicine, University of Utah School … Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 4VA Maryland Health Care System and University of Maryland School of Medicine, …
  • Text-Processing of VA Clinical Notes to Improve Case Detection Models for Influenza-like Illness

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    Objective There were two objectives of this analysis. First, apply text-processing methods to free-text clinician notes extracted from the VA electronic medical record for automated detection of Influenza-Like-Illness. Secondly,… read more
    … MSc4, Matthew H Samore, MD 1 1VA Salt Lake City Health Care system and the Department of Medicine, University of … Bloomberg School of Public Health, 3VA Maryland Health Care System and University of Maryland, School of Medicine, … 15,377 outpatient encounters from the VA Maryland Health Care system (VAMHCS) and VA Salt Lake City Health Care …
  • Using clinician mental models to guide annotation of medically unexplained symptoms and syndromes found in VA clinical documents

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    Medically unexplained syndromes (MUS) are conditions that are diagnosed on the basis of symptom constellations and are characterized by a lack of well-defined pathogenic pathways. The three most common MUS are chronic fatigue … read more
    … and AV Gundlapalli1,2 1Salt Lake City VA Health Care System, Salt Lake City, UT, USA; and 2University of … Region one and four Data Warehouse, who received health care services between 1 January 2007 and 12 December 2010. …
  • Identifying Contextual Features to Improve the Performance of an Influenza-Like Illness Text Classifier

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    To understand the types of false positive cases identified by an Influenza-like illness (ILI) text classifier by measuring the prevalence of ILI-related concepts that are negated, hypothetical, include explicit mention of temporality, experienced by… read more
    … Wendy W. Chapman, PhD3 1VA Salt Lake City Health Care System, 2Department of Internal Medicine, University of … Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 4VA Maryland Health Care System and University of Maryland School of Medicine, …
  • Pilot Evaluation of Syndrome-specific School Absenteeism Data for Public Health Surveillance

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    School absenteeism data could be used as an early indicator for disease outbreaks. The increase in absences, however, may be driven by non-sickness related factors. Reason for absence combined with syndrome-specific information… read more
    … of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, 2VA Salt Lake City Health Care system and the Department of Internal Medicine, …