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Using clinician mental models to guide annotation of medically unexplained symptoms and syndromes found in VA clinical documents
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Medically unexplained syndromes (MUS) are conditions that are diagnosed on the basis of symptom constellations and are characterized by a lack of well-defined pathogenic pathways. The three most common MUS are chronic fatigue … read more… USA; and 2University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA E-mail: brett.south@hsc.utah.edu Objectives We sought to … -
Population-based, pathogen-specific surveillance in Utah
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Epidemiological information realized by modern disease surveillance systems offers great potential for supporting clinical decision-making. Providing health practitioners with population-based, pathogen-specific information about regional… read more… and 2Intermountain Healthcare, Salt Lake City, UT, USA E-mail: Per.Gesteland@hsc.utah.edu Objective The objective of … -
SAGES: a suite of freely available software tools for electronic disease surveillance in resource-limited settings
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Emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases are a serious threat to global public health. The World Health Organization (WHO) has identified more than 1100 epidemic events worldwide in the last 5 years alone. Recently, the emergence of the… read more… Health Surveillance Center, Silver Spring, MD, USA E-mail: Sheri.Lewis@jhuapl.edu Objective This paper describes … -
A bootstrapping method to improve cohort identification
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The research reported in this paper is part of a larger effort to achieve better signal-to-noise ratio, hence accuracy, in pharmacovigilance applications. The relatively low frequency of occurrence of adverse drug reactions leads to… read more… MA, USA; and 3Clinical Metrics LLC, Poland, ME, USA E-mail: sasi.kandula@utah.edu Objective ICD-9 codes are … -
Novel Conceptual Framework and Toolset for Country-wide Assessments of Opportunities and Challenges for Public Health Interventions
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Imbalances in wealth, education, infrastructure, socio-political leadership, healthcare, and demographics create opportunities and challenges when implementing public health interventions. Understanding these, while embracing "smart power," one can… read more… evaluation; assessment; SWOT; smart power *Scott McNabb E-mail: scottjnmcnabb@emory.edu (page number not for citation … -
Systematic Comparison of Algorithms Used in Syndromic Surveillance
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Varied approaches have been used by syndromic surveillance systems for aberration detection. However, the performance of these methods has been evaluated only across a small range of epidemic characteristics. Objective… read more… syndromes having average daily counts of 2, 10, 35 and 50 visits per day. We then simulated epidemics by creating all … -
GraphScan: Detection and Analysis of Free-Form Spatio-Temporal Patterns
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By capturing the spatio-temporal organization of the data using a graph, GraphScan avoids the challenges associated with trying to “fit” incoming data into moving windows of predefined shapes and sizes. Whereas the popular space-time permutation… read more… to the level of “activity” (e.g., count of GI-related ED visits) for the corresponding region and time period. … -
Chart Review of Laboratory-Confirmed Salmonella Enteritidis Cases in a Local Food Borne Outbreak Linked to Mung Bean Sprouts
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A retrospective chart review was performed to examine chief complaint, syndrome classification and discharge diagnoses of laboratory confirmed Salmonella Enteritidis phage type (PT) 13 cases who visited the Emergency Departments (ED) of two local… read more… Division. The RODS-based system captures real-time ED visits from 7 area hospitals and real-time admissions from 3 …