Practical usage of computer-supported outbreak detection in five european countries

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 15, Issue 36, 2010, Pages 1-6

  Hulth, A ^a   Andrews, N ^b   Ethelberg, S ^c   Dreesman, J ^d   Faensen, D ^e,f   van Pelt, W ^g   Schnitzler, J ^e,h  

^a SWEDISH INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE CONTROL   (Sweden)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^c STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^d Governmental Institute of Public Health of Lower Saxony   (Germany)

^e ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^f EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR DISEASE PREVENTION AND CONTROL ECDC   (Sweden)

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

^h WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER PREDICTION; COMPUTER SUPPORTED OUTBREAK DETECTION; DENMARK; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EPIDEMIC; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GERMANY; INFECTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; NETHERLANDS; PUBLIC HEALTH; SWEDEN; UNITED KINGDOM; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROBABILITY;

ACADEMIES AND INSTITUTES; ALGORITHMS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DENMARK; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GERMANY; GOVERNMENT AGENCIES; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; NETHERLANDS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PROBABILITY; SWEDEN;

EID: 77957607700     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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