|
|||||
|
|
Probabilistic Case Detection for Disease Surveillance Using Data in Electronic Medical Records |
|
| Authors: | Fuchiang Tsui Michael Wagner Gregory Cooper Jialan Que Hendrik Harkema John Dowling Thomsun Sriburadej Qi Li Jeremy U. Espino Ronald Voorhees |
| Affiliation: | 1.Center for Advanced Study of Informatics in Public Health, Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh;2.Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh |
| Abstract: | This paper describes a probabilistic case detection system (CDS) that uses a Bayesian network model of medical diagnosis and natural language processing to compute the posterior probability of influenza and influenza-like illness from emergency department dictated notes and laboratory results. The diagnostic accuracy of CDS for these conditions, as measured by the area under the ROC curve, was 0.97, and the overall accuracy for NLP employed in CDS was 0.91. |
| Keywords: | case detection disease surveillance influenza electronic medical records |