Published on in Vol 5, No 1 (2013):

Time of Arrival Analysis in NC DETECT to Find Clusters of Interest from Unclassified Patient Visit Records

Time of Arrival Analysis in NC DETECT to Find Clusters of Interest from Unclassified Patient Visit Records

Time of Arrival Analysis in NC DETECT to Find Clusters of Interest from Unclassified Patient Visit Records

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This abstract describes a collaboration with the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, the North Carolina Division of Public Health, and the UNC Department of Emergency Medicine Carolina Center for Health Informatics to implement time-of-arrival analysis for hospital emergency department (ED) data in NC DETECT to identify clusters of ED visits for which there is no pre-defined syndrome or sub-syndrome.