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Sensitivity and Specificity of an Ngram Method for Classifying Emergency Department Visits into the Respiratory Syndrome in the Turkish Language
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Previously we developed an “Ngram” classifier for syndromic surveillance of emergency department (ED) chief complaints (CC) in Turkish for bioterrorism. The classifier is developed from a set of ED visits for which both the ICD… read more… in that it assigns a probability that each visit falls within the syndrome rather than ruling the visit “in” or “out” of the syndrome. It is possible … classifiers in that it assigns a probability that each visit falls within the syndrome rather than ruling the visit … -
A Case Manager Tool for Anomaly Investigation in BioSurveillance
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Effective anomaly detection depends on the timely, asynchronous generation of anomalies from multiple data streams using multiple algorithms. Our objective is to describe the use of a case manager tool for combining anomalies into cases, and for… read more… New York, for the years 1996-2005. The record for each visit includes hospital, patient geography …