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Survey of Syndromic Surveillance Uses
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Syndromic surveillance is the surveillance of healthrelated data that precedes diagnosis to detect a disease outbreak or other health related event that warrants a public health response. Though syndromic surveillance is… read more… for Disease Control and Prevention, web citation http://www.cdc.gov/ncphi/disss/nndss/syndromic.htm. [2] J Am Med … Further Information: Hillary Kleiner, kleiner_hillary@bah.com Advances in Disease Surveillance 2008;5:40 … -
Looking for Anthrax: Feasibility Study of Free Text Analytics for Emergency Department Syndromic Surveillance
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The primary objective of this study is to assess the capability of an advanced text analytics tool that uses natural language processing techniques to extract important medical information collected as part of routine emergency room care (history,… read more… response. Currently, most developed tools are based on a cod- ing schema (i.e., International Classification of Dis- … Further Information: Hillary Kleiner, kleiner_hillary@bah.com Advances in Disease Surveillance 2007;4:20 …