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An Efficient Approach to Map LOINC Concepts to Notifiable Conditions
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The objective of this project was to develop an efficient method to map Logical Observation Identifier Names and Codes (LOINC) to notifiable conditions to accommodate future changes in standard laboratory test codes.… (version 2.12) to notifiable conditions were produced in May 2004. The data in the tables is based on three standard … which included 11,972 new terms that had been added since May 2004. Also, 6,735 terms were retired from LOINC since May 2004. Therefore, an efficient method to add new concepts … -
Antiviral Prescription Data to Enhance Influenza Surveillance
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Influenza surveillance provides public health officials and healthcare providers with data on the onset, duration, geographic location, and level of influenza activity in order to guide the local use of interventions. The Influenza Sentinel Provider… read more… in all 50 states over the period of October 2003 to May 2007 were used for this analysis. The weekly propor- … at the national and regional levels. A lag analysis to com- pare timing of increases and decreases in antiviral use …