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Looking for Anthrax: Feasibility Study of Free Text Analytics for Emergency Department Syndromic Surveillance
Content Type: Abstract
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… surveil- lance uses health associated information (i.e., symp- toms) that precede diagnosis as a signal of a … a cod- ing schema (i.e., International Classification of Dis- eases (ICD-9) codes) and are unable to accurately … to identify and extract information related to the di- agnosis/occurrence of specific syndromes of interest. …