Espino Jeremy U, Hogan William R, Wagner Michael M
RODS Laboratory, Center for Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2003;2003:215-9.
We evaluated telephone triage (TT) data for public health early warning systems. TT data is electronically available and contains coded elements that include the demographics and description of a caller's medical complaints. In the study, we obtained emergency room TT data and after hours TT data from a commercial TT software and service company. We compared the timeliness of the TT data with influenza surveillance data from the Centers for Disease Control using the cross correlation function. Emergency room TT calls are one to five weeks ahead of surveillance data collected by the CDC.
我们评估了用于公共卫生早期预警系统的电话分诊（TT）数据。TT数据以电子形式提供，包含编码元素，包括来电者医疗投诉的人口统计学信息和描述。在这项研究中，我们从一家商业TT软件和服务公司获取了急诊室TT数据和非工作时间TT数据。我们使用互相关函数将TT数据的及时性与疾病控制中心的流感监测数据进行了比较。急诊室TT呼叫比疾病控制中心收集的监测数据提前一到五周。
