Using chief complaints for syndromic surveillance: A review of chief complaint based classifiers in North America

Journal of Biomedical Informatics

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 734-743

  Conway, Mike ^a   Dowling, John N ^b   Chapman, Wendy W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chief complaints; Medical language processing; Natural language processing; Syndromic surveillance

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC EXTRACTION; CHIEF COMPLAINTS; COMPUTERIZED SYSTEMS; MEDICAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NORTH AMERICAN; PUBLIC HEALTH INFORMATICS; SYNDROMIC SURVEILLANCE;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

MONITORING;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; CODED CHIEF COMPLAINTS FOR EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT SYSTEM; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DYSPNEA; EARLY ABERRATION REPORTING SYSTEM; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; EMERGENCY MEDICAL TEXT PROCESSOR; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EPISTAXIS; HEAD INJURY; HEADACHE; HEALTH SURVEY; HEART PALPITATION; HIP PAIN; HUMAN; MAYO CLINIC VOCABULARY SERVER; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL PROBABILISTIC LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING SYSTEM; MIGRAINE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NAUSEA; NGRAM CHIEF COMPLAINT CLASSIFIER; NORTH AMERICA; PATIENT MONITORING; PHYSICIAN; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RARE DISEASE; REAL TIME PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; SHOULDER INJURY; SLURRED SPEECH; SORE THROAT; SYMPTOM; THORAX PAIN; TOOTH FILLING; VISUAL DISORDER; VOMITING; WEAKNESS;

CHIEF COMPLAINTS; MEDICAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; SYNDROMIC SURVEILLANCE;

HUMANS; NORTH AMERICA; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SYNDROME;

EID: 84880333399     PISSN: 15320464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2013.04.003     Document Type: Review

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