Burning up: finding fever expressions in triage notes

Authors:
Stephanie W. Haas;Debbie Travers;Deepika Mahalingam;John Crouch;Javed Mostafa;Anna Waller
Affiliations:
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill;University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill;University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill;University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill;University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill;University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Venue:
Proceedings of the 73rd ASIS&T Annual Meeting on Navigating Streams in an Information Ecosystem - Volume 47
Year:
2010

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Abstract

Biosurveillance depends on accurate recognition of symptoms such as fever. We describe a manual bootstrapping method for discovering fever expressions in emergency department triage notes, which will in turn serve as seed terms for automatic discovery of novel expressions.