Automated Syndromic Surveillance for the 2002 Winter Olympics

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 547-554

  Gesteland, Per H ^a,b,f   Gardner, Reed M ^a,f   Tsui, Fu Chiang ^c   Espino, Jeremy U ^c   Rolfs, Robert T ^d   James, Brent C ^a   Chapman, Wendy W ^c   Moore, Andrew W ^e   Wagner, Michael M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b INTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UTAH DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^e Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CONFIDENTIALITY; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION SCIENCE; LAW; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; REAL TIME OUTBREAK AND DISEASE SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0242580249     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M1352     Document Type: Article

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