PetBERT: automated ICD-11 syndromic disease coding for outbreak detection in first opinion veterinary electronic health records.

ABSTRACT: Effective public health surveillance requires consistent monitoring of disease signals such that researchers and decision-makers can react dynamically to changes in disease occurrence. However, whilst surveillance initiatives exist in production animal veterinary medicine, comparable frameworks for companion animals are lacking. First-opinion veterinary electronic health records (EHRs) have the potential to reveal disease signals and often represent the initial reporting of clinical syndromes in animals presenting for medical attention, highlighting their possible significance in early disease detection. Yet despite their availability, there are limitations surrounding their free text-based nature, inhibiting the ability for national-level mortality and morbidity statistics to occur. This

SUBMITTER: Farrell S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10590382 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature