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Improving Negation Processing in Triage Notes
Content Type: Abstract
Emergency Department (ED) triage notes are clinical notes that expand upon the chief complaint, and are included in the AHIC minimum dataset for biosurveillance.1 Clinical notes can improve the accuracy of keyword-based syndromes but require… read more… a sample of NC DETECT records that included the 4432 ED visits with triage notes for 11/22/2006 and 11/23/2006. … submitted tri- age notes, which comprised 30% of all visits for those dates. We then manually selected a sample … and type of negation. The final sample included 177 visits con- taining negated terms, from 18 of the 19 NC DE- …