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ArticleAMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium2007

Defining and applying a method for improving the sensitivity and specificity of an emergency department early event detection system.

Matthew J Scholer, George S Ghneim, Shiying Wu, Matt Westlake, Debbie A Travers, Anna E Waller, Anne-Lyne McCalla, Scott F Wetterhall

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Article in AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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10 citing papers in PubMed.

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  7. Implementation of Emergency Medical Text Classifier for syndromic surveillance.AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium · 2013
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  9. Evaluation of a chief complaint pre-processor for biosurveillance.AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium · 2007
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Matthew J ScholerUniversity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
George S Ghneim
Shiying Wu
Matt Westlake
Debbie A Travers
Anna E Waller
Anne-Lyne McCalla
Scott F Wetterhall

Funding

The BioSense Initiative to Improve Early Event DetectionR01PH000038 · PH · RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE · PI WETTERHALL, SCOTT F. · 2005 to 2007
$831k
PHPPO CDC HHS R01 PH000038PHPPO CDC HHS R01 PH000038-0
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The sensitivity and specificity of syndrome definitions used in early event detection (EED) systems affect the usefulness of the system for end-users. The ability to calculate these values aids system designers in the refinement of syndrome definitions to better meet public health needs. Utilizing a stratified sampling method and expert review to create a gold standard dataset for the calculation of sensitivity and specificity, we describe how varying syndrome structure impacts these statistical parameters and discuss the relevance of this to outbreak detection and investigation.

Indexed as

Disease OutbreaksEarly DiagnosisDatabases as TopicEmergency Service, HospitalHumansNorth CarolinaPopulation SurveillancePublic Health InformaticsRespiratory Tract DiseasesSensitivity and Specificity

Identifiers

PMID18693917
PMCPMC2655810

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