Enhancing spatial detection accuracy for syndromic surveillance with street level incidence data

International Journal of Health Geographics

Volumn 9, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Savory, David J ^a   Cox, Kenneth L ^b   Emch, Michael ^c   Alemi, Farrokh ^d   Pattie, David C ^a  

^a Planned Systems International Inc   (United States)

^b Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center   (United States)

^c University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^d GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; DISEASE SPREAD; INFLUENZA; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SURVEY;

ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIC; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; METHODOLOGY; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; SOLDIER; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

CALIFORNIA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HOSPITALS, MILITARY; HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MILITARY PERSONNEL; OUTPATIENT CLINICS, HOSPITAL; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PUBLIC HEALTH INFORMATICS; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; SPACE-TIME CLUSTERING;

EID: 76749169450     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476072X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-072X-9-1     Document Type: Article

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