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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… clinicians on a personal level, with phone, fax and snail mail. There are a multitude of secured websites hosted by … on personal communications involving phone, fax and snail mail. UDOH sought to develop and encourage the use of a … of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, USA E-mail: jreid@utah.gov Objective There is an urgent need for … -
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… Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA E-mail: sdelisle@umaryland.edu Introduction Microorganisms … ARI symptoms)) to EMR entries surrounding all outpatient visits (n!4.1 million) during our study period (January … were then manu- ally abstracted on the day of each index visit for all information required to establish … -
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… 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 … The NegEx algorithm for text-processing detected 2,338 visits with non-negated vomiting or diarrhea or abdominal … -
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… USA; and 2University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA E-mail: brett.south@hsc.utah.edu Objectives We sought to …