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The Utility of Patient Chief Complaint and ICD 9 Classifiers for the Influenza Sub-Syndrome
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In order to detect influenza outbreaks, the New York State Department of Health emergency department (ED) syndromic surveillance system uses patients’ chief complaint (CC) to assign visits to respiratory and fever syndromes… read more… of flu. Our own experience was that although flu may be a com- mon presentation in the ED during the flu season, it is … -
A System for Simulation: Introducing Outbreaks into Time Series Data
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Objective Several authors have described ways to introduce artificial outbreaks into time series for the purpose of developing, testing, and evaluating the effectiveness and timeliness of anomaly detection algorithms, and more… read more… the efficiency of using time series data several fold com- pared to when just a single artificial outbreak is … -
The use of patient temperature data for biosurveillance in the emergency department
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Biosurveillance systems commonly use emergency department (ED) patient chief complaint data (CC) for surveillance of influenza-like illness (ILI). Daily volumes are tracked using a computerized patient CC classifier for fever (CC… read more… JR Allegra.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 4 number of visits that were identified … Threats Journal DG Cochrane and JR Allegra. 2011, 4:s60 www.eht-journal.org page 2/2 5 … -
A Pilot Study of Aberration Detection Algorithms with Simulated Data
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To evaluate four algorithms with varying baseline periods and adjustment for day of week for anomaly detection in syndromic surveillance data. read more… User Guide, version 2.06 (September 2006), at http://0- www.cdc.gov.mill1.sjlibrary.org/biosense, 2007. 3. CR … -
ICD9 as a Surrogate for Chart Review in the Validation of a Chief Complaint Syndromic Surveillance System
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The existing New York State Department of Health emergency department syndromic surveillance system has used patientâs chief complaint (CC) for assigning to six syndrome categories (Respiratory, Fever, Gastrointestinal, Neurological, Rash, Asthma… read more… ICD-9 CM Based Sub-Syndrome Distributions in BioSense Hospital … hospital data, including ED chief complaints, ICD-9 CM diagnoses, and patient demographic data (with obvious … 0 5000 10000 15000 20000 25000 30000 35000 40000 A bd om in al pa in In ju ry , N O S N au se a an d vo m iti ng C … -
Talking Turkish: Using N-Grams for Syndromic Surveillance in a Turkish Emergency Department without the Need for English Translation
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Previously we used an “N-Gram” classifier for syndromic surveillance of emergency department (ED) chief complaints (CC) in English for bioterrorism. The classifier is trained on a set of ED visits for which both the ICD diagnosis code and CC are… read more… English Translation Sylvia Halasz PhD1, Philip Brown1, Cem Oktay MD2, Arif Alper Cevik MD3, Isa Kilicaslan MD2, … -
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… Syndrome in the Turkish Language Philip Brown1, Cem Oktay MD2, Arif Alper Cevik MD3, Isa Kilicaslan MD2, …