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  • Defining and Applying a Method for Establishing Gold Standard Sets of Emergency Room Visit Data

    Content Type: Abstract

    The goal of this paper is to describe a methodology used to create a gold standard set of emergency department (ED) data that can subsequently be used to evaluate the sensitivity and specificity of syndrome definitions.
    … thod_For_Establishing_Gold_Standard_Sets_Of_Emergency_Room_Visit_Data.pdf 3 views Submitted by elamb on Mon, 07/30/2018 … for Establishing Gold Standard Sets of Emergency Room Visit Data George S. Ghneim1, D.V.M., M.P.V.M., Ph.D., … for Establishing Gold Standard Sets of Emergency Room Visit Data …
  • Defining emergency department asthma visits for public health surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    Tracking emergency department (ED) asthma visits is an important part of asthma surveillance, as ED visits can be preventable and may represent a failure of asthma control efforts. When using limited clinical ED datasets for secondary purposes such… read more
    … only the primary ICD-9-CM diagnosis assigned to the ED visit; however, doing so may underestimate the public health … secondary or tertiary positions. For example, for an ED visit with a primary diagnosis of upper respiratory … the infection triggered the asthma exacerbation and the visit could be attributed to both infection and asthma.   …
  • In Search of a Controlled Vocabulary for Emergency Department Chief Complaint: A Comparison of Four Published Chief Complaint Lists

    Content Type: Abstract

    The lack of a standardized vocabulary for recording CC complicates the collection, aggregation, and analysis of CC for any purpose, but especially for real-time surveillance of patterns of illness and injury. The need for a controlled CC vocabulary… read more
    … The lack of a standardized vocabulary for recording CC … creation of a controlled ED CC vocabulary. BACKGROUND The lack of a standardized vocabulary for recording CC … as separate terms); va- riance in scope of terms (back pain and back symp- toms); and imprecise use of terms …
  • 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
    … Chief Complaints •Challenges •Tool developed at UNC A Visit to the ED Chief Complaints- Influenza Chief Complaint: … Yellow sputum. Respiratory Fever Rash on chest, spread to back, abd & neck. Fever today with back pain. Aches. Fever …
  • Emergency Department Data Quality Best Practices

    Content Type: Abstract

    Data quality for syndromic surveillance extends beyond validating and evaluating syndrome results. Data aggregators and data providers can take additional steps to monitor and ensure the accuracy of the data. In North Carolina,… read more
    … of data elements that should not change, i.e. time of visit, discharge disposition, etc. The aggregate trends … relevant facilities. Their responses can involve sending back data to fill in gaps, amending their internal data …
  • 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 …
  • 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
    … G, Bamberger A, Friedman C. Fever Detection in Clinic Visit Notes Using a General Purpose Processor. Advances in …
  • 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. …