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Challenges in adapting an natural language processing system for real-time surveillance
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We are developing a Bayesian surveillance system for realtime surveillance and characterization of outbreaks that incorporates a variety of data elements, including free-text clinical reports. An existing natural language processing (… read more… examining sentences causing the errors in separate text documents. We are building a framework to simplify results … a lexicon-building tool to mine synonyms from clinical documents and the UMLS Metathesaurus. Conclusions … -
Monitoring the Transfer of Patients with Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever from Tribal Lands to Facilities in Maricopa County, Arizona
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Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (RMSF), a bacterial tick-borne rickettsial illness, initially causes nonspecific symptoms (e.g., fever, rash, nausea, and vomiting). In 2003, RMSF was identified on tribal lands in Arizona where the brown dog tick… read more -
Syndromic Surveillance in Integrated Disease Surveillance Project (ISDP) and Pre Hospital Emergency Care in India
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Globally, disease surveillance systems suffer from a number of resource constraints. These constraints are more pronounced in developing countries, which bear the greatest burden of disease and where pathogens are more likely to emerge, reemerge,… read more… (06-07) Information from www.idsp.nic.in //localhost/C/Documents and Settings/Dr. Bachani/Desktop/IDSP/IDSP … Presentations/IDSP/WB Mission-Sep.05/Presentations/My Documents/WINDOWS/Profiles/uttaranchal/uttaranchal.htm … //localhost/C/Documents and Settings/Dr. Bachani/Desktop/IDSP/IDSP … -
Some Interactive Data Exploration Tools for Syndromic Surveillance
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This paper describes several interactive data exploration tools for examining surveillance data.… /Description << /ENU (Use these settings to create PDF documents with higher image resolution for high quality pre-press printing. The PDF documents can be opened with Acrobat and Reader 5.0 and … -
Expanding a Gazetteer-based Approach for Geo-Parsing Text from Media Reports on Global Disease Outbreaks
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HealthMap (www.healthmap.org) is a freely accessible, automated real-time system that monitors, organizes, integrates, filters, and maps online news about emerging diseases. The system performs geographic parsing (“geo-parsing”) of disease… read more… C. 1994. Gipsy: Automated geographic indexing of text documents. Journal of the American Society for Information … -
Automatically tracking diabetes using information in physicians’ notes
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Patient consultations recorded as voice dictations are frequently stored electronically as transcriptions in free text format. The information stored in free text is not computer tractable. Advances in artificial intelligence permit the… read more… solutions developed for this project can be applied to documents from other institutions and to other diseases. It … -
Using AFDL Algorithm to Estimate Risk of Positive Outcomes of Microbial Tests at Food Establishments
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One of the common tasks faced by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) food safety analysts is to estimate the risk of observing positive outcomes of microbial tests of food samples collected at the slaughter and food… read more… /ENU (Use these settings to create Adobe PDF documents for quality printing on desktop printers and proofers. Created PDF documents can be opened with Acrobat and Adobe Reader 5.0 … -
Event Communication in a Regional Disease Surveillance System
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Versatile, user-friendly visualization tools are required to organize the wealth of information available to users of large, regional surveillance systems into a coherent view of population health status. Communications … read more… on system usage patterns during simulated exercises and documenta- tion of investigation practices observed during …