Issues in Building a Nursing Home Syndromic Surveillance System with Textmining: Longitudinal Observational Study.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:New nursing homes (NH) data warehouses fed from residents' medical records allow monitoring the health of elderly population on a daily basis. Elsewhere, syndromic surveillance has already shown that professional data can be used for public health (PH) surveillance but not during a long-term follow-up of the same cohort. OBJECTIVE:This study aimed to build and assess a national ecological NH PH surveillance system (SS). METHODS:Using a national network of 126 NH, we built a residents' cohort, extracted medical and personal data from their electronic health records, and transmitted them through the internet to a national server almost in real time. After recording sociodemographic, autonomic and syndromic information, a set of 26 syndromes was defined using pattern matching with

SUBMITTER: Delespierre T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6315244 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature