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Defining and Applying a Method for Establishing Gold Standard Sets of Emergency Room Visit Data
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The goal of this paper is to describe a methodology used to create a gold standard set of emergency department (ED) data that can subsequently be used to evaluate the sensitivity and specificity of syndrome definitions.… thod_For_Establishing_Gold_Standard_Sets_Of_Emergency_Room_Visit_Data.pdf 5 views Submitted by elamb on Mon, 07/30/2018 … for Establishing Gold Standard Sets of Emergency Room Visit Data George S. Ghneim1, D.V.M., M.P.V.M., Ph.D., … definitions. METHODS There are about 1.1 millions total visits in the North Carolina Disease Event Tracking and … -
Reverse Engineering of a Syndrome Definition for Influenza
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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.… with a goal of increasing sensitivity. METHODS Patient visits from the 2003-2004 influenza season (9/28/03-3/27/04) … Ghneim, G., Sickbert-Bennett, E., Waller, A., Ising, A. & Mail- lard, J. North Carolina Bioterrorism and Emerging … -
Evolution of a Syndromic Surveillance Case Definition
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In North Carolina, select hospital emergency departments have been submitting data since 2003 for use in syndromic surveillance. These data are collected, stored, and parsed into syndrome categories by the North Carolina… read more… zoster were not included. From the 813,536 ED visits in the database for the calendar year 2004, all visits with the ICD-9-CM code of 052.0-052.9 (CP) and all visits meeting the syndrome definition for FRI were … -
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 …