A software tool for creating simulated outbreaks to benchmark surveillance systems

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Cassa, Christopher A ^a,b,d   Iancu, Karin ^b   Olson, Karen L ^a,c   Mandl, Kenneth D ^a,c  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; EVALUATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; QUALITY CONTROL; SIMULATION; ALGORITHM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; PROCEDURES;

ALGORITHMS; BENCHMARKING; BIOTERRORISM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 23944511485     PISSN: 14726947     EISSN: 14726947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6947-5-22     Document Type: Article

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