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  • Improvement in Performance of Ngram Classifiers with Frequent Updates

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      Syndromic surveillance of emergency department(ED) visit data is often based on computerized classifiers which assign patient chief complaints (CC) tosyndromes. These classifiers may need to be updatedperiodically to account for changes… read more
    …   Syndromic surveillance of emergency department(ED) visit data is often based on computerized classifiers which … Syndromic surveillance of emergency department (ED) visit data is often based on computerized classi- fiers …   Syndromic surveillance of emergency department(ED) visit data is often based on computerized classifiers which …
  • Informing Public Health Prevention in NC Using Falls Surveillance Data

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    Falls are a leading cause of fatal and nonfatal injury in NC. As the size of the older adult population is predicted to increase over the next few decades, it is likely that the incidence of falls-related morbidity and mortality will increase in… read more
    … hospital discharge, and emergency department (ED) visit data, to inform falls prevention activities in North … hospital discharge, and emergency department (ED) visit data, to inform falls prevention activities in North …
  • Carbon Monoxide Poisoning during Hurricane Sandy in Affected New York State Counties

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    CO poisoning is a leading cause of mortality and morbidity in disaster and post-disaster situations, when widespread power outages most likely occur (1, 2). The NYSDOH Syndromic Surveillance System receives daily ED visit chief complaint data from… read more
    … NYSDOH Syndromic Surveillance System receives daily ED visit chief complaint data from 140 NYS (excluding New York … NYSDOH Syndromic Surveillance System receives daily ED visit chief complaint data from 140 NYS (excluding New York …
  • A Survey of Data Recording Procedures at New York City Emergency Departments

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    Data is collected daily by the DOHMH from 49 of the 52 NYC EDs, representing approximately 95% of all ED visits in NYC. Variability in data fields between and within EDs has been noticed for some time. Differences in chief complaint (CC)… read more
    … hospital based emergency department (ED) survey and site visit project conducted by the New York City (NYC) … hospital based emergency department (ED) survey and site visit project conducted by the New York City (NYC) …
  • Evaluation of DoD Syndrome Mapping and Baseline for ICD-9-CM to ICD-10-CM Transition

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    The Department of Defense conducts syndromic surveillance of health encounter visits of Military Health System (MHS) beneficiaries. Providers within the MHS assign up to 10 diagnosis codes to each health encounter visit. The diagnosis codes are… read more
    … assign up to 10 diagnosis codes to each health encounter visit. The diagnosis codes are grouped into syndrome and … assign up to 10 diagnosis codes to each health encounter visit. The diagnosis codes are grouped into syndrome and …
  • Impact of Patient Self-Registration in Emergency Departments on Syndromic Surveillance Data

    Content Type: Abstract

    The Florida Department of Health electronically receives hospital emergency department (ED) data from 180 EDs located in 54 of its 67 counties through its Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (… read more
    … patients, which include ED self check-in kiosks, and pre-visit registration smartphone applications and websites. … patients, which include ED self check-in kiosks, and pre-visit registration smartphone applications and websites. …
  • Characterization of communicable disease epidemics using bayesian inversion

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    The evolution of a communicable disease in a human population is not entirely predictable. However, the spreading process can be assumed to vary smoothly in time. The time-dependent infection process can be linked to observations of… read more
    … the delay is caused by incubation and a (hospital) visit delay, modeled as independent random variables. A … data, the delay is caused by incubation and a (hospital) visit delay, modeled as independent random variables. A … for use with biosurveillance data, by adding a model for visit delay. The model is also augmented, for use in …
  • The Performance of a NGram Classifier for Patients' Chief Complaint Based on a Computerized Pick List Entry and Free Text in an Italian Emergency Department

    Content Type: Abstract

    Syndromic surveillance of emergency department (ED) visit data is often based on computer algorithms which assign patient chief complaints (CC) and ICD code data to syndromes. The triage nurse note (NN) has also been used for… read more
    … Syndromic surveillance of emergency department (ED) visit data is often based on computer algorithms which … Syndromic surveillance of emergency department (ED) visit data is often based on computer algorithms which … Syndromic surveillance of emergency department (ED) visit data is often based on computer algorithms which …