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Manual entry: Symptoms from unstructured sources #637

Open sratcliffe118 opened 4 years ago

sratcliffe118 commented 4 years ago

Curator feedback A curator may entering symptoms reported from a non-medical social media source, like Twitter. If a tweet lists "my head hurts", what should be entered?

@outbreakprepared From an EPI perspective what is of value here? As I see it we have 3 options here:

  1. The curator needs to use their judgement to enter a listed symptom. In example above headache would be the closest match
  2. Curator enters the 'symptom' as a free text option
  3. Curator doesn't enter a symptom but records the information in notes for the line list case.

@sratcliffe118 preference is for 1 to be used for MVP, and notes used as a backup location if there is no symptom listed which fits.

@outbreakprepared Please provide EPI preferred approach

dakrownie commented 4 years ago

@outbreakprepared Bumping this up in your inbox. Following up via ping! Per Stephen's comment above, what is EPI's preferred approach?