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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… a sample of NC DETECT records that included the 4432 ED visits with triage notes for 11/22/2006 and 11/23/2006. … G, Bamberger A, Friedman C. Fever Detection in Clinic Visit Notes Using a General Purpose Processor. Advances in … -
Using UMLS Semantic Network to Identify Search Terms for Biosurveillance
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The variability of free text emergency department (ED) data is problematic for biosurveillance, and current methods of identifying search terms for symptoms of interest are inefficient as well as time- and labor-intensive. Our ad… read more… Further In- formation: Debbie Travers, dtravers@email.unc.edu Advances in Disease Surveillance 2008;5:69 …