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  • Evaluation of Emergency Medical Text Processor for Pre-Processing Chief Complaint Data for Syndromic Surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    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.
    … by two clinical experts who determined whether the visit met the ILI clinical case definition. Any …
  • Reverse Engineering of a Syndrome Definition for Influenza

    Content Type: Abstract

    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.
    … identi- fication of many false positive records. Due to lack of recognition of negation terms (e.g. no headache vs. …