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Semantic Approach to Text Understanding of Chief Complaints Data
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Chief complaints are often represented textually and as a mixture of complex and context-dependant lexical symbols with little formal sentence structure. Although human experts usually comprehend this information in its right context intuitively and… read more -
Sensitivity and Specificity of an Ngram Method for Classifying Emergency Department Visits into the Respiratory Syndrome in the Turkish Language
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Previously we developed an “Ngram” classifier for syndromic surveillance of emergency department (ED) chief complaints (CC) in Turkish for bioterrorism. The classifier is developed from a set of ED visits for which both the ICD… read more -
Sensitivity and Specificity of ICD-9 Based Syndromic Surveillance System in a Rural Emergency Department, Michigan 2004
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The use of syndromic surveillance systems to assist with the timely detection of unusual health events first occurred prior to the events of September 11, 2001. In the State of Michigan a pilot project with emergency departments began collecting… read more -
Services Oriented Architectures and Just in Time Deployment of Ad-Hoc Health Surveillance Systems: Lessons from Katrina Relief Efforts
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Timely outbreak detection, and monitoring of morbidity and mortality among Katrina evacuees, and needs assessment for better planning and response were urgent information intensive priorities during Katrina relief efforts at… read more -
Short Term Effects of Meteorological Parameters to Respiratory Infections with Fever
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It has been noted since the era of Hippocrates that weather conditions at a specific location can influence the incidence of various infectious and noninfectious diseases. It has also been implied that variations in weather conditions… read more -
Simulation of Correlated Outbreak Signals for Early Aberration Reporting
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The Early Aberration Reporting System was developed at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to help assist local and state health officials to focus limited resources on appropriate activities of public health… read more -
Situational Awareness Using Web-based Annotation and Custom Reporting
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While early event detection systems aim to detect disease outbreaks before traditional means, following up on the many alerts generated by these systems can be time-consuming and a drain on limited resources. Authorized users at local, regional… read more -
Sneezes vs. Wheezes: Syndrome Definitions for Influenza-like Illness
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During influenza season, the Boston Public Health Commission uses syndromic surveillance to monitor Emergency Department visits for chief complaints indicative of influenza-like illness (ILI). We created three syndrome definitions for ILI to capture… read more