Accounting for seasonal patterns in syndromic surveillance data for outbreak detection

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Burr, Tom ^a   Graves, Todd ^a   Klamann, Richard ^a   Michalak, Sarah ^a   Picard, Richard ^a   Hengartner, Nicolas ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EMERGENCY WARD; EPIDEMIC; FORECASTING; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SIMULATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROCEDURES; RESPIRATION DISORDERS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEASON; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYNDROME; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; UTILIZATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA COLLECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FORECASTING; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEW MEXICO; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RESPIRATION DISORDERS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEASONS; SYNDROME;

EID: 33845538991     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6947-6-40     Document Type: Article

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