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Defining and applying a method for improving the sensitivity and specificity of an emergency department early event detection system.

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Scholer, MJ; Ghneim, GS; Wu, S; Westlake, M; Travers, DA; Waller, AE; McCalla, A-L; Wetterhall, SF
Published in: AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
October 2007

The sensitivity and specificity of syndrome definitions used in early event detection (EED) systems affect the usefulness of the system for end-users. The ability to calculate these values aids system designers in the refinement of syndrome definitions to better meet public health needs. Utilizing a stratified sampling method and expert review to create a gold standard dataset for the calculation of sensitivity and specificity, we describe how varying syndrome structure impacts these statistical parameters and discuss the relevance of this to outbreak detection and investigation.

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AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium

EISSN

1942-597X

Publication Date

October 2007

Start / End Page

651 / 655

Related Subject Headings

  • Sensitivity and Specificity
  • Respiratory Tract Diseases
  • Public Health Informatics
  • Population Surveillance
  • North Carolina
  • Humans
  • Emergency Service, Hospital
  • Early Diagnosis
  • Disease Outbreaks
  • Databases as Topic
 

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Scholer, M. J., Ghneim, G. S., Wu, S., Westlake, M., Travers, D. A., Waller, A. E., … Wetterhall, S. F. (2007). Defining and applying a method for improving the sensitivity and specificity of an emergency department early event detection system. AMIA ... Annual Symposium Proceedings. AMIA Symposium, 651–655.
Scholer, Matthew J., George S. Ghneim, Shiying Wu, Matt Westlake, Debbie A. Travers, Anna E. Waller, Anne-Lyne McCalla, and Scott F. Wetterhall. “Defining and applying a method for improving the sensitivity and specificity of an emergency department early event detection system.AMIA ... Annual Symposium Proceedings. AMIA Symposium, October 2007, 651–55.
Scholer MJ, Ghneim GS, Wu S, Westlake M, Travers DA, Waller AE, et al. Defining and applying a method for improving the sensitivity and specificity of an emergency department early event detection system. AMIA . Annual Symposium proceedings AMIA Symposium. 2007 Oct;651–5.
Scholer, Matthew J., et al. “Defining and applying a method for improving the sensitivity and specificity of an emergency department early event detection system.AMIA ... Annual Symposium Proceedings. AMIA Symposium, Oct. 2007, pp. 651–55.
Scholer MJ, Ghneim GS, Wu S, Westlake M, Travers DA, Waller AE, McCalla A-L, Wetterhall SF. Defining and applying a method for improving the sensitivity and specificity of an emergency department early event detection system. AMIA . Annual Symposium proceedings AMIA Symposium. 2007 Oct;651–655.

Published In

AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium

EISSN

1942-597X

Publication Date

October 2007

Start / End Page

651 / 655

Related Subject Headings

  • Sensitivity and Specificity
  • Respiratory Tract Diseases
  • Public Health Informatics
  • Population Surveillance
  • North Carolina
  • Humans
  • Emergency Service, Hospital
  • Early Diagnosis
  • Disease Outbreaks
  • Databases as Topic