Automated real time constant-specificity surveillance for disease outbreaks

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Wieland, Shannon C ^a,b,c,d   Brownstein, John S ^b,d   Berger, Bonnie ^a,c   Mandl, Kenneth D ^b,d  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; EMERGENCY CARE; EPIDEMIC; EXPECTATION VARIANCE MODEL; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; COMPUTER SYSTEM; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EVALUATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; SEASON; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; CHILD; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SEASONS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; TIME;

EID: 34447330992     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6947-7-15     Document Type: Article

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