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A Comparison of Chief Complaints and Emergency Department Reports for Identifying Patients with Acute Lower Respiratory Syndrome
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Automated syndromic surveillance systems often classify patients into syndromic categories based on free-text chief complaints. Chief complaints (CC) demonstrate low to moderate sensitivity in identifying syndromic cases. Emergency Department (ED)… read more… reports promise more detailed clinical information that may increase sensitivity of detection. Objective: Compare … a Random Forests Classifier. Gold Standard Classification com- prised majority vote of three physicians reading ED … classifiers by randomly split- ting the 272 cases into 70% train and 30% test sets and averaging performance over …