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  • Content Type: Abstract

    Clinician initiated reporting of notifiable conditions is often delayed, incomplete, and lacking in detail. We report on the deployment of Electronic medical record Support for Public health (ESP), a system we have created to automatically screen… read more
    … Lyme disease, for example, can be diagnosed from the com- bination of 1) an ICD9 code 088.81 (erythema chronicum … 1999;282: 1845–50. 3. Panackal AA, M’ikanatha NM, Tsui FC, et al. Automatic electronic laboratory-based reporting … EpicCare Ambulatory. Available at http://www.epicsystems. com/Software/EnterpriseClinical.php#ambulatory. Accessed …
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    Approximately one quarter of people treated for tuberculosis (TB) have no supporting microbiology, and thus are not detectable through laboratory reporting systems. Health departments depend upon clinicians to report these… read more
    … with a combined positive predictive value of 82%. By com- parison, the most sensitive single algorithm (any ICD9 … (100%) 9/11 (82%) CONCLUSIONS These results suggest it may be possible to achieve both high sensitivity and …