Syndromic Surveillance Using Minimum Transfer of Identifiable Data: The Example of the National Bioterrorism Syndromic Surveillance Demonstration Program

Journal of Urban Health

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2003, Pages

  Platt, Richard ^a,d   Bocchino, Carmella ^b   Caldwell, Blake ^d   Harmon, Robert ^c   Kleinman, Ken ^a   Lazarus, Ross ^a,e   Nelson, Andrew F ^f   Nordin, James D ^f   Ritzwoller, Debra P ^g  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b America's Health Insurance Plans   (United States)

^c OPTUM   (United States)

^d Optum ^*  (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^f HEALTHPARTNERS RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

^g KAISER PERMANENTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute disease epidemiology; Ambulatory care; Bioterrorism; Cluster analysis; Disease outbreaks; Human; Medical informatics applications; Medical records systems; Population surveillance methods; Statistics and numerical data; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; AMBULATORY CARE; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONFIDENTIALITY; COOPERATION; COST CONTROL; DATA BASE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EPIDEMIC; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL RECORD; PATIENT INFORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRIVACY; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; STATISTICS; SYNDROME; SYNDROMIC SURVEILLANCE; TELEPHONE; ARTICLE; INFECTION CONTROL; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; PILOT STUDY; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

BIOTERRORISM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA COLLECTION; DISEASE NOTIFICATION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; PILOT PROJECTS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PUBLIC HEALTH INFORMATICS; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0344497443     PISSN: 10993460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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