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Building an automated Bayesian case detection system
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Current practices of automated case detection fall into the extremes of diagnostic accuracy and timeliness. In regards to diagnostic accuracy, electronic laboratory reporting (ELR) is at one extreme and syndromic surveillance is at… read more… immediate, and ELR is delayed 7 days from initial patient visit. A plausible solution, a middle way, to the extremes … mediate, and ELR is delayed 7 days from initial patient visit.1 A plausible solution, a middle way, to the extremes … Figure 1 shows chart of percent daily expected ED flu visits from July to December of 2009. Average daily ED … -
An automated influenza-like-illness reporting system using freetext emergency department reports
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Current methods for influenza surveillance include laboratory confirmed case reporting, sentinel physician reporting of Influenza-Like-Illness (ILI) and chief-complaint monitoring from emergency departments (EDs). The current… read more… Allegheny County Health Department, Pittsburgh, PA, USA E-mail: tsui2@pitt.edu Objective This paper describes an … a 6-month time series graph of the percentage of total ED visits per day with ILI detected by the rule-based logic. … of the UPMC Health System. The average number of daily ED visits with ED reports between July and Dec. 2009 was 569. …