Fever detection from free-text clinical records for biosurveillance
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Fever detection from free-text clinical records for biosurveillance
Automatic detection of cases of febrile illness may have potential for early detection of outbreaks of infectious disease either by identification of anomalous numbers of febrile illness or in concert with other information in diagnosing specific syndromes, such as febrile respiratory syndrome. At most institutions, febrile information is contained only in free-text clinical records. We compare...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Biomedical Informatics
سال: 2004
ISSN: 1532-0464
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2004.03.002