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Developing Syndrome Definitions Based on Consensus and Current Use
Content Type: Webinar
Presenter Wendy Chapman, PhD, Associate Professor, Division of Biomedical Informatics, UCSD School of Medicine Date Thursday, November 18, 2010 Host ISDS… read more -
A Comparison of Chief Complaints and Emergency Department Reports for Identifying Patients with Acute Lower Respiratory Syndrome
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Automated syndromic surveillance systems often classify patients into syndromic categories based on free-text chief complaints. Chief complaints (CC) demonstrate low to moderate sensitivity in identifying syndromic cases. Emergency Department (ED)… read more -
Evaluation of Preprocessing Techniques for Chief Complaint Classification
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The Real-time Outbreak and Disease Surveillance system collects chief complaints as free text and uses a naïve Bayesian classifier called CoCo to classify the complaints into syndromic categories. CoCo 3.0 has been trained on 28,990 manually clas-… read more -
Chief Complaint Preprocessing Evaluated on Statistical and Non-Statistical Classifiers
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To determine whether preprocessing chief complaints before automatically classifying them into syndromic categories improves classification performance. -
Can Chief Complaints Identify Patients with Febrile Syndromes?
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Syndromic surveillance systems often classify patients into syndromic categories based on emergency department (ED) chief complaints. There exists no standard set of syndromes for syndromic surveillance, and the available syndromic case… read more -
Identifying Contextual Features to Improve the Performance of an Influenza-Like Illness Text Classifier
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To understand the types of false positive cases identified by an Influenza-like illness (ILI) text classifier by measuring the prevalence of ILI-related concepts that are negated, hypothetical, include explicit mention of temporality, experienced by… read more -
Identifying Respiratory-Related Clinical Conditions from ED Reports with Topaz
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Case detection from chief complaints suffers from low to moderate sensitivity. Emergency Department (ED) reports contain detailed clinical information that could improve case detection ability and enhance outbreak… read more -
Monitoring Febrile Syndromes from Chief Complaints: Is the Information There?
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There exists no standard set of syndromes for syndromic surveillance, and available syndromic case definitions demonstrate substantial heterogeneity of findings constituting the definition. Many syndromic case definitions require… read more