Automated detection and reporting of notifiable diseases using electronic medical records versus passive surveillance - Massachusetts, June 2006-July 2007

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

Volumn 57, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 373-376

  Klompas, M ^a   Lazarus, R ^a   Platt, R ^a   Hou, X ^b   Campion, F X ^c   Kruskal, B ^c   Haney, G ^d   Dumas, W ^d   Daniel, J ^d   DeMaria, A ^d   McNabb, S J N ^e  

^a HARVARD PILGRIM HEALTH CARE   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e CDC

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MEDICAL RECORD; METHODOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

DISEASE NOTIFICATION; HUMANS; MASSACHUSETTS; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE;

EID: 41949117765     PISSN: 01492195     EISSN: 1545861X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Note

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