A review of healthcare, public health, and syndromic surveillance

Quality Engineering

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 435-450

  Tsui, Kwok Leung ^a   Chiu, Wenchi ^a   Gierlich, Peter ^a   Goldsman, David ^a   Liu, Xuyuan ^a   Maschek, Thomas ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

CUSUM; EWMA; Forecasting; Public heatlh; Regression; Scan statistics; Simulation; Spatial; Spatiotemporal surveillance; Temporal; Time series

Indexed keywords

HEALTH RISKS;

AVIAN INFLUENZA; BIO-TERRORISM; CUSUM; DATA COLLECTIONS; EWMA; FORECASTING; FUTURE RESEARCH; PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS; PERFORMANCE MEASURES; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC HEATLH; REGRESSION; SCAN STATISTICS; SIMULATION; SPATIAL; SPATIOTEMPORAL SURVEILLANCE; SURVEILLANCE METHODS; SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS; SYNDROMIC SURVEILLANCE; TEMPORAL; TIME SERIES;

HEALTH;

EID: 52349099595     PISSN: 08982112     EISSN: 15324222     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08982110802334138     Document Type: Review

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