Syndromic surveillance for local outbreaks of lower-respiratory infections: Would it work?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  van den Wijngaard, Cees C ^a   van Asten, Liselotte ^a   van Pelt, Wilfrid ^a   Doornbos, Gerda ^a   Nagelkerke, Nico J D ^b   Donker, Géa ^c   van der Hoek, Wim ^a   Koopmans, Marion P G ^a,d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^b UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^c NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^d ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EPIDEMIC; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOSPITALIZATION; INFLUENZA; LEGIONNAIRE DISEASE; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; NETHERLANDS; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS INFECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; EVALUATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SYNDROME;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE; NETHERLANDS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS INFECTIONS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SYNDROME;

EID: 77956407593     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0010406     Document Type: Article

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