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Fever Detection in Clinic Visit Notes Using a General Purpose Processor
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With increased penetration of clinical information system products and increased interest in clinical data exchange, a variety of clinician’s notes are becoming available for surveillance. Chief complaints have been studied extensively, and… read more… notes have received attention, but narrative clinic visit notes have gotten little attention. Objective To … to detect fever, and to assess the feasibility of parsing visit notes for syndromic surveillance. Document … Fever Detection in Clinic Visit Notes Using a General Purpose Processor George … -
Syndromic Surveillance Case Definition Development Using Recursive Partitioning Techniques for Highly Dimensional Databases
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Seasonal influenza accounts for a high proportion of outpatient morbidity during the winter months. However, influenza case counts are greatly underestimated due to frequently undiagnosed influenza. Electronic medical record (EMR… read more… following database tables: age, vital signs, reason for visit, procedures (CPT), and diagnoses (ICD-9). 10-fold … rate, 51 CPT codes, 46 ICD-9 codes, and 41 ‘reasons for visit’ were identified for the final model analysis. The … 1. This model includes Temperature, Age, 8 reasons for visit (Sore throat, Fever, Cough, Cold symptoms, Throat …