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ArticleAMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium2013

Implementation of Emergency Medical Text Classifier for syndromic surveillance.

Debbie Travers, Stephanie W Haas, Anna E Waller, Todd A Schwartz, Javed Mostafa, Nakia C Best, John Crouch

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Article in AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Using natural language processing in emergency medicine health service research: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Debbie TraversSchools of Nursing, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC ; Medicine/Emergency Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.
Stephanie W HaasInformation and Library Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.
Anna E WallerMedicine/Emergency Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.
Todd A SchwartzSchools of Nursing, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC ; Public Health/Biostatistics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.
Javed MostafaInformation and Library Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.
Nakia C BestSchools of Nursing, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.
John CrouchSchools of Nursing, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC ; Medicine/Emergency Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.

Funding

Adapting Natural Language Processing Tools for BiosurveillanceG08LM009787 · NLM · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI TRAVERS, DEBBIE A · 2009 to 2011
$441k
NLM NIH HHS 1G08LM009787-01A1NLM NIH HHS G08 LM009787
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Public health officials use syndromic surveillance systems to facilitate early detection and response to infectious disease outbreaks. Emergency department clinical notes are becoming more available for surveillance but present the challenge of accurately extracting concepts from these text data. The purpose of this study was to implement a new system, Emergency Medical Text Classifier (EMT-C), into daily production for syndromic surveillance and evaluate system performance and user satisfaction. The system was designed to meet user preferences for a syndromic classifier that maximized positive predictive value and minimized false positives in order to provide a manageable workload. EMT-C performed better than the baseline system on all metrics and users were slightly more satisfied with it. It is vital to obtain user input and test new systems in the production environment.

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Disease OutbreaksNatural Language ProcessingElectronic Health RecordsEmergency Service, HospitalHumansPublic Health InformaticsPublic Health Surveillance

Identifiers

PMID24551413
PMCPMC3900151

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