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Mapping Bioterrorism Agents Research Literature
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This paper describes a research effort to map the literature of bioterrorism agents research worldwide using bibliographic analysis, content map analysis, and co-authorship analysis based on Medline data. The objectives of our research are to (a)… read more… using bibliographic analysis, content map analysis, and co-authorship analysis based on Medline data. The objectives … using bibliographic analysis, content map analysis, and co-authorship analysis based on Medline data. The objectives … No.202, 10/20/2005, Rules and Regulations. [3] http://www.cdc.gov/OD/OHS/biosfty/biosfty.htm [4] Chen H., C. … -
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… of using a medical ontology to classify free-text chief com- plaints into syndrome categories. BACKGROUND Free-text … syndrome category using a rule inference engine, JESS (www.jessrules.com). RESULTS We have conducted an initial … evaluation of our approach using a CC dataset col- lected from one hospital in the State of Arizona. Early … -
Incorporating Geographical Contacts into Social Network Analysis for Contact Tracing in Epidemiology: A Study on Taiwan SARS Data
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In epidemiology, contact tracing is a process to control the spread of an infectious disease and identify individuals who were previously exposed to patients with the disease. After the emergence of AIDS, SNA was demonstrated to be a good… read more… In epidemiology, contact tracing is a process to con- trol the spread of an infectious disease and identify … into SNA has been demonstrated to reveal potential con- tacts among patients [2][3]. METHODS In this research, … connect individual patients to form a network with two com- monly used measures in SNA, the degree of a node and … -
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… CCs collected from a hospital in Phoenix and Chinese CCs col- lected from a hospital in Taipei, Taiwan, shows …