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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 … current acute fever as fever related to the current visit, that occurred within the past week, and that was not … 2004 Apr;37(2):120-7. [2] Friedman C, Shagina L, Lussier Y, Hripcsak G. Automated encoding of clinical documents … -
Invited Commentary: Automated Public Health Reporting-- A Familiar but Cantankerous Friend
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The Electronic medical record Support for Public health (ESP) project by Klompas et al. (1) promises improved public health reporting by exploiting information captured in electronic health records. This project pulls together a number of… read more… Medi- cal Associates is promising. A related system may offer some lessons for the new project. The Applied … of a clinical event monitor. Comput Biomed Res 1993;26:449–66. 7. Nguyen TQ, Thorpe L, Makki HA, Mostashari F. … 1999;282: 1845–50. 9. Panackal AA, M’ikanatha NM, Tsui FC, et al. Automatic electronic laboratory-based reporting … -
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 …