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Triage Note in Emergency Department-Based Syndromic Surveillance
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The North Carolina Bioterrorism and Emerging Infection Prevention System (NC BEIPS) receives daily emergency department (ED) data from 33 (29%) of the 114 EDs in North Carolina. These data are available via a Web-based portal and the Early… read more… definitions of the CDC and search the chief complaint (CC) and, when available, triage note (TN) and initial … a TN, which is a brief text passage that describes the CC in more detail. Most research on the utility of ED data for SS has focused on the use of CC. The goal of this study was to determine the sensitivity, … -
Evaluation of Emergency Medical Text Processor for Pre-Processing Chief Complaint Data for Syndromic Surveillance
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The goal of this project is to compare automated syn-dromic surveillance queries using raw chief complaints to those pre-processed with the Emergency Medical Text Processor (EMT-P) system.… daily with 6 syndrome reports, using chief complaint (CC) and, when available, triage note (TN) and tem- perature … written in standard query language (SQL) and search raw CC and TN text for keywords (e.g., myalgia, fever), … System (UMLS) [2]. Cleaning modules address free text CC variability such as acronyms, truncations and … -
North Carolina Bioterrorism and Emerging Infection Prevention System
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NC BEIPS is a system designed and developed by the NC Division of Public Health (DPH) for early detection of disease and bioterrorism outbreaks or events. It analyzes emergency department (ED) data on a daily basis from 33 (29%) EDs in North… read more… (NLP) system, is applied to clean ED chief complaint (CC) data daily. Aggregate reports with cleaned CC data are now available, and evaluation of the use of … generated, providing a line listing of all the syndrome visits that contributed to the flag on that particular date. … -
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) … of the term “flu” in either the chief com- plaint (CC) or triage note (TN) field (without evi- dence of fever) … G., Sickbert-Bennett, E., Waller, A., Ising, A. & Mail- lard, J. North Carolina Bioterrorism and Emerging Infections … -
Incorporating Wildlife Data into Syndromic Surveillance
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The North Carolina Bioterrorism and Emerging Infection Prevention System (NC BEIPS) serves public health users across North Carolina at the local, regional and state levels, providing syndromic surveillance capabilities. At the state level,… read more… generated, providing a line listing of all the syndrome visits that contributed to the flag on that particular date. … The PWC defines 8 syndromes and assigns each patient visit to none, one or as many syndromes as are appropriate … The PWC is currently assigning syndromes to each visit where appropriate but are not yet providing that …