An assessment of electronically captured data in the patient care enhancement system (PACES) for syndromic surveillance

Annals of the Academy of Medicine Singapore

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 539-544

  Ang, Bryan Chin Hou ^a,d   Chen, M I C ^b   Goh, T L H ^c   Ng, Y Y ^c   Fan, S W ^c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b TAN TOCK SENG HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^c Singapore Army   (Singapore)

^d NONE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Computerised medical records systems; Disease outbreaks; Primary healthcare; Statistics and numerical data

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMA; CONSULTATION; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; EPIDEMIC; FEVER; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PATIENT CARE; PERIODICITY; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SINGAPORE; SKIN BLEEDING; SKIN INFECTION;

EID: 29144529092     PISSN: 03044602     EISSN: 29724066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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