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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 … -
Establishing a Syndromic Surveillance System Using Chief-Complaint Data at Emergency Department of One Regional Hospital in Taipei City to Detect Infectious Disease Outbreaks
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Facing public health threats of bioterrorism and emerging infectious diseases (EID), the traditional passive surveillance system is not efficient and outmoded. Evidences reveal that several newly developed syndromic surveillance… read more… From Oct. 1 to May 31, 2006, there have been 126,675 ED visit data stored in the data base. We categorized ED … the increasing trend by CoCo. Agreement between ICD-9 and CC was 0.58 kappa. CONCLUSIONS Our finding on the increasing … Illness in a Pediatric Population. Ped. Emerg. Care. 2004;20:355-360 [2] Wendy W. Chapman, Lee M. … -
Integrated Syndromic and Virologic Surveillance Systems from Taiwan's Experiences in Facing Global Challenges of Emerging Infectious Diseases
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Objective: Emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases (EID/REID) involve large populations at risk and thus they might lead to rapidly increasing cases or case fatality rates. Living in this global village, cross-country or cross-continent spread… read more… 6 Global Change Research Center, *Corresponding Author <cc_king99@hotmail.com> OBJECTIVE Emerging and re-emerging … the outbreak of LPAI and HPAI viruses (Liu CM and King CC, 2007) have been implemented for pandemic influenza … -
Establishment of Public-access Syndromic Surveillance System in Taipei City, Taiwan
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Taiwan had established a nation-wide emergency department (ED)-based syndromic surveillance system since 2004, with a mean detection sensitivity of 0.67 in 2004-06 [1]. However, this system may not represent the true epidemic situation of infectious… read more… in community, particularly those who don't seek medical care [2]. Moreover, the epidemiological settings, sources of … in community, particularly those who do not seek medical care (2). Moreover, the epidemiological settings, sources of … earlier, particularly those who do not seek medical care. Certainly, this newly developed and user-friendly … -
Monitoring Dynamic Tempo-Spatial Changes of Influenza-Like Illness During 2005-2007 through Sentinal-Physician Surveillance in Taiwan Using Ring Maps
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The global health threat of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 has been increasing rapidly in the world since the crosscountry outbreaks during 2003-04. In South and East Asia, the human influenza A (H3N2) was proved to be seeded… read more… method, which was used to display the diffusion, was hard to monitor the multiple temporal and spatial dimensions … method, which was used to display the diffusion4, was hard to monitor the multiple temporal and spatial dimensions … method, which was used to display the diffusion, was hard to monitor the multiple temporal and spatial dimensions …