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Resolving the 'Boy Who Cried Wolf' Syndrome
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To date, most syndromic surveillance systems rely heavily on complicated statistical algorithms to identify aberrations. The assumption is that when the statistics identify something unusual, follow-up should occur. However, with multiple strata… read more… phrases, and combinations of variables were used to train the natural language processor (NLP) on which records … and alerting thresholds needed to cause a flag and (2) training the NLP to return a list of key chief complaints …