Syndromic Surveillance Using Ambulatory Electronic Health Records

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 354-361

  Hripcsak, George ^a,b   Soulakis, Nicholas D ^b   Li, Li ^a   Morrison, Frances P ^a   Lai, Albert M ^a   Friedman, Carol ^a   Calman, Neil S ^c   Mostashari, Farzad ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE   (United States)

^c Institute for Urban Family Health   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH CENTER; HEALTH SURVEY; MEDICAL INFORMATION;

AMBULATORY CARE FACILITIES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PUBLIC HEALTH INFORMATICS;

EID: 65349112142     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M2922     Document Type: Article

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