Using Information Entropy to Monitor Chief Complaint Characteristics and Quality
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2013
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American English
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As we enter the 'big medical data' era, a new core competency is to continuously monitor quality of data collected from electronic sources, including population surveillance data sources. We describe how entropy, a fundamental information measure, can help monitor the characteristics of chief complaints in an operational surveillance system.
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Grannis, S., Dixon, B., Xia, Y., & Wu, J. (2013). Using Information Entropy to Monitor Chief Complaint Characteristics and Quality. Online Journal of Public Health Informatics, 5(1).
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