Comparison of two signal detection methods in a coroner-based system for near real-time mortality surveillance

Public Health Reports

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 521-530

  Groenewold, Matthew R ^a  

^a Louisville Metro Health Department   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONER; CUSUM METHOD; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIC THRESHOLD; EVALUATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MORTALITY; PERFORMANCE; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIMULATION; TECHNIQUE; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; METHODOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

BIOTERRORISM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORONERS AND MEDICAL EXAMINERS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; MORTALITY; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 34547691526     PISSN: 00333549     EISSN: 14682877     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/003335490712200414     Document Type: Article

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