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Improving Negation Processing in Triage Notes
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Emergency Department (ED) triage notes are clinical notes that expand upon the chief complaint, and are included in the AHIC minimum dataset for biosurveillance.1 Clinical notes can improve the accuracy of keyword-based syndromes but require… read more -
In Search of a Controlled Vocabulary for Emergency Department Chief Complaint: A Comparison of Four Published Chief Complaint Lists
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The lack of a standardized vocabulary for recording CC complicates the collection, aggregation, and analysis of CC for any purpose, but especially for real-time surveillance of patterns of illness and injury. The need for a controlled CC vocabulary… read more -
Defining emergency department asthma visits for public health surveillance
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Tracking emergency department (ED) asthma visits is an important part of asthma surveillance, as ED visits can be preventable and may represent a failure of asthma control efforts. When using limited clinical ED datasets for secondary purposes such… read more -
Using UMLS Semantic Network to Identify Search Terms for Biosurveillance
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The variability of free text emergency department (ED) data is problematic for biosurveillance, and current methods of identifying search terms for symptoms of interest are inefficient as well as time- and labor-intensive. Our ad… read more -
Triage Note in Emergency Department-Based Syndromic Surveillance
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The North Carolina Bioterrorism and Emerging Infection Prevention System (NC BEIPS) receives daily emergency department (ED) data from 33 (29%) of the 114 EDs in North Carolina. These data are available via a Web-based portal and the Early… read more