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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 … -
Ontology-Based Automatic Chief Complaints Classification for Syndromic Surveillance
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Free-text emergency department triage chief complaints (CCs) are a popular data source used by many syndromic surveillance systems because of their timeliness, availability, and relevance. The lack of standardization of CC vocabulary poses a major… read more… and relevance. The lack of standardization of CC vocabulary poses a major technical challenge to any automatic CC classification approach. This challenge can be partially … through a medical ontology in the context of automatic CC classification for syndromic surveillance. Objective … -
Arizona's Near Real Time School-based Syndromic Surveillance Program
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1) Describe a near real-time school-based syndromic surveillance program that integrates electronic data records and a two-way health alert system for early outbreak detection, notification, and possible intervention for Arizona schools. 2)… read more… submitted approximately 1.6 mil- lion school nurse visit records via the SSSP. ILI and influenza data from … viral respiratory diseases among children and on health care utili- zation. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2004 Jul; …