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Performance of Sub-Syndrome Chief Complaint Classifiers for the GI Syndrome
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention BioSense project has developed chief complaint (CC) and ICD9 sub-syndrome classifiers for the major syndromes for early event detection and situational awareness. This has the potential to… read more… a retrospective study of emergency department (ED) visits at four New York State hospitals from May 1, 2005 to April 30, 2007. These hospitals have annual ED visits ranging from 24,000 to 33,000 and have electronic … was possibly infectious in origin. We did not count the visit within a GI sub-syndrome if another specific etiology … -
Detection of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning in Chief Complaint Data
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Following an Oct 12-13, 2006 snowstorm, almost 400,000 homes in western New York lost power, some for up to 12 days. News reports said that emergency rooms saw many patients with CO exposure; 3 deaths were attributed to CO poisoning. As part of NYS… read more… 3 days after the storm, identification of CO-related visits in real time was not feasible. Retrospectively, … received CO-related diagnoses. The daily number of ED visits with CO-related CCs closely followed the epidemic … in the routinely monitored syndromes. Of the 260 ED visits with CO_related diagnoses, only 59 had CCs that met … -
The Performance of Sub-Syndrome Chief Complaint Classifiers for the GI and RESP Syndromes
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention BioSense has developed chief complaint (CC) and ICD9 sub syndrome classifiers for the major syndromes for early event detection and situational awareness. The prevalence of these sub… read more… of a CC classifier. Methods: A retrospective study of ED visits at four New York State hospitals from May 1, 2005 to … was performed. These hospitals have annual volumes of ED visits from 24,000 to 33,000 and have electronic medical …