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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.… and Emerging Infection Prevention System (NC BEIPS, www.ncbeips.org ) to reverse engineer a syndrome definition … and Emerging Infection Prevention Sys- tem (NC BEIPS, www.ncbeips.org) to reverse engi- neer a syndrome definition … illness, a combination of evidence of fever and another com- mon symptom was used. The frequency of this com- … -
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… OBJECTIVE This paper describes a novel approach to the con- struction of syndrome queries written in Structured … bioter- rorism-associated agents. Available at http://www.bt.cdc.gov/ surveillance/syndromedef/index.asp. Accessed … SQL Server 2005 Books Online, http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library /ms174214.aspx, Accessed June 29, 2006. … -
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… diagnoses, due to the latency in receiving ICD-9-CM final diagnosis codes. The queries account for … Infect Dis [serial on the Internet]. 2004 May http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol10no5/03- 0646.htm. Accessed July … Advances in Disease Surveillance 2007;4:167 http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol10no5/03-0646.htm … -
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… of Diseases, 9th Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) codes, chief complaint (CC), initial recorded … temperature, and ED nurse triage note (TN). As ICD-9-CM codes are not transmitted to our database in a timely … bio- terrorism-associated agents. Available at http://www.bt.cdc. gov /surveillance/syndromedef/index.asp. … -
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… frame=http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/documentation.html [2] …