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Making the Best Use of Textual ED Data for Syndromic Surveillance
Content Type: Webinar
In this webinar Dr. Travers will review two tools developed at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, which aid in processing textual CC’s and triage notes in support of syndromic surveillance. Textual data from emergency departments… read more… Haas, Waller, Schwartz, Mostafa Machine Learning • Train system to identify patterns • Requires gold standard training set • Syndromic surveillance- gold standard • … -
Improving Negation Processing in Triage Notes
Content Type: Abstract
Emergency Department (ED) triage notes are clinical notes that expand upon the chief complaint, and are included in the AHIC minimum dataset for biosurveillance.1 Clinical notes can improve the accuracy of keyword-based syndromes but require… read more… of negation. The final sample included 177 visits con- taining negated terms, from 18 of the 19 NC DE- TECT …