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Rapid Identification of Pneumonias in BioSense Data Using Radiology Text Reports
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BioSense currently receives demographic and chief complaint data from more than 360 hospitals and text radiology reports from 36 hospitals. Detection of pneumonia is an important as several Category A bioterrorism diseases as well as avian influenza… read more… text reports are often received within 1-2 days and may provide a faster way to identify pneumonia than coded … reports of chest X-rays performed for 42,510 hospital visits (which corresponds to 34,883 patients) and the … Armen Asatryan, MD, MPH E-mail: armen.asatryan@saic.com Advances in Disease Surveillance 2007;4:82 … BioSense … -
Identifying Fractures in BioSense Radiology Reports
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The purposes of this study are to validate a keyword-based text parsing algorithm for identifying fractures and compare radiology results with chief complaint and ICD-9 final diagnoses.… and pharmeutical receipt. METHODS We studied 17,647 visits with an extremity film and final ICD-9 coded … we applied the text parsing algorithm to all 17,647 visits with a text radiography reading. Of these, 73% were … good agreement with discharge ICD-9 codes; disagreements may have occurred because of inaccuracies in the text …