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Using Information Entropy to Monitor Chief Complaint Characteristics and Quality

Using Information Entropy to Monitor Chief Complaint Characteristics and Quality

Using Information Entropy to Monitor Chief Complaint Characteristics and Quality

Authors of this article:

Shaun Grannis1 ;   Brian Dixon2 ;   Yuni Xia3 ;   Jianmin Wu2
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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.