Syndromic surveillance: Sensitivity and positive predictive value of the case definitions

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 137, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 662-671

  Guasticchi, G ^a   Giorgi Rossi, P ^a   Lori, G ^a   Genio, S ^a   Biagetti, F ^a   Gabriele, S ^a   Pezzotti, P ^a   Borgia, P ^a  

^a Agency for Public Health   (Italy)

Author keywords

Case definition; Positive predictive value; Sensitivity; Syndromic surveillance

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLEEDING DISORDER; BOTULISM; BRAIN DISEASE; CALCULATION; COMA; DEATH; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEVER; GASTROENTERITIS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LYMPHADENITIS; MENINGITIS; POSITIVE PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREDICTION; RASH; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEPSIS; SHOCK; SKIN DEFECT; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; VIRUS HEPATITIS; VOMITING; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EVALUATION; FACTUAL DATABASE; HEALTH SURVEY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; STATISTICS;

AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HUMANS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE;

EID: 65549151733     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268808001374     Document Type: Article

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