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  • Improving System Ability to Identify Symptom Complexes in Free-Text Data

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    Text-based syndrome case definitions published by the Center for Disease Control (CDC)1 form the basis for the syndrome queries used by the North Carolina Disease Event Tracking and Epidemiologic Collection Tool (NC DETECT). Keywords within these… read more
    … terms resulted in the return of many unwanted records due to the inability to control for certain terms imbedded … terms resulted in the return of many unwanted records due to the inability to control for certain terms imbedded … search for "h/a" with "h[/-,]a", for example, will return all results in which "h" and "a" are separated by either a …
  • Situational Awareness Using Web-based Annotation and Custom Reporting

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    While early event detection systems aim to detect disease outbreaks before traditional means, following up on the many alerts generated by these systems can be time-consuming and a drain on limited resources. Authorized users at local, regional… read more
    … ambulance runs and the statewide poison control center. All NC DETECT Web functionality is developed in a … ambulance runs and the statewide poison control center. All NC DETECT Web functionality is developed in a … ambulance runs and the statewide poison control center. All NC DETECT Web functionality is developed in a …
  • Reverse Engineering of a Syndrome Definition for Influenza

    Content Type: Abstract

    We report here on the use of the North Carolina Bioterrorism and Emerging Infection Prevention System (NC BEIPS, www.ncbeips.org) to reverse engineer a syndrome definition of influenza for the purpose of influenza surveillance.
    … Through the use of this system, we are able to de- velop, evaluate and refine syndrome definitions in … attempt at influenza syndrome definition development did not combine evidence of fever with other common symptoms … in the identi- fication of many false positive records. Due to lack of recognition of negation terms (e.g. no …