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Improving Negation Processing in Triage Notes
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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… submitted tri- age notes, which comprised 30% of all visits for those dates. We then manually selected a … visits con- taining negated terms, from 18 of the 19 NC DE- TECT hospitals that provide triage notes (one ED had no … plan to evaluate additional modifications to the NegEx dic- tionary to fine-tune the synonyms and additional re- …