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Triage Note in Emergency Department-Based Syndromic Surveillance
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The North Carolina Bioterrorism and Emerging Infection Prevention System (NC BEIPS) receives daily emergency department (ED) data from 33 (29%) of the 114 EDs in North Carolina. These data are available via a Web-based portal and the Early… read more… syndrome categories based on clinical case definition. All visits were electronically processed for SS twice, once … [3] Wagner, MM, Espino J, Tsui FC, et al. Syndrome and outbreak detection using … in public health practice, New York City. Emerg Infect Dis. 2004 May;10(5):858-64. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Funding was … -
Reverse Engineering of a Syndrome Definition for Influenza
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We report here on the use of the North Carolina Bioterrorism and Emerging Infection Prevention System (NC BEIPS, www.ncbeips.org) to reverse engineer a syndrome definition of influenza for the purpose of influenza surveillance.… Through the use of this system, we are able to de- velop, evaluate and refine syndrome definitions in … attempt at influenza syndrome definition development did not combine evidence of fever with other common symptoms … in the identi- fication of many false positive records. Due to lack of recognition of negation terms (e.g. no … -
Evaluation of Emergency Medical Text Processor for Pre-Processing Chief Complaint Data for Syndromic Surveillance
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The goal of this project is to compare automated syn-dromic surveillance queries using raw chief complaints to those pre-processed with the Emergency Medical Text Processor (EMT-P) system.… recently imple- mented at NC BEIPS and is used to clean all ED CCs on a daily basis. METHODS This study analyzed a … NC BEIPS data warehouse. 500 visits were selected that did not meet any of the original automated syndrome queries, …