Detecting the start of an influenza outbreak using exponentially weighted moving average charts

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Steiner, Stefan H ^a   Grant, Kristina ^b   Coory, Michael ^c   Kelly, Heath A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b VICTORIAN INFECTIOUS DISEASES REFERENCE LABORATORY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFLUENZA; METHODOLOGY; PROBABILITY; SEASON; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; DISEASE NOTIFICATION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SEASONS; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; VICTORIA;

EID: 77953957583     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6947-10-37     Document Type: Article

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