A major goal of Natural Language Processing in the public health informatics domain is the
automatic extraction and encoding of data stored in free text patient records. This extracted …

STUDY OBJECTIVE: We assess the impact of emergency department (ED) pharmacists on
reducing potentially harmful medication errors. METHODS: We conducted this observational …

Efficient information management and communication within the emergency department
(ED) is essential to providing timely and high-quality patient care. The ED whiteboard …

Background: Emergency departments use triage to ensure that patients with the highest
level of acuity receive care quickly and safely. Triage is typically a nursing process that is …

STUDY OBJECTIVE: Electronic surveillance systems often monitor triage chief complaints in
hopes of detecting an outbreak earlier than can be accomplished with traditional reporting …

Performance measures are increasingly important to guide meaningful quality improvement
efforts and value-based reimbursement. Populations included in most current hospital …

Syndromic surveillance is concerned with continuous monitoring of public health-related
information sources and early detection of adverse disease events. Syndromic surveillance …

Emergency department (ED) triage is a fast-paced process that prioritizes the allocation of
limited health care resources to patients in greatest need. This paper describes the …

Disasters are typically viewed as low probability yet high impact events. Although various
definitions have been used, a disaster is frequently viewed as a situation in which the …

Objectives: To describe a new chief‐complaint categorization schema, the development of a
computer text‐parsing algorithm to automatically classify free‐text chief complaints into this …