Utility of international classification of diseases, ninth revision, clinical modification codes for communicable disease surveillance

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 172, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1299-1305

  Sickbert Bennett, Emily E ^a,b   Weber, David J ^a,b   Poole, Charles ^b   MacDonald, Pia D M ^b   Maillard, Jean Marie ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b IL   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES   (United States)

Author keywords

communicable diseases; International Classification of Diseases; population surveillance; reproducibility of results

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; DISEASE SPREAD; HEALTH SERVICES; PUBLIC HEALTH; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL STUDY; TUBERCULOSIS;

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BRUCELLOSIS; CAMPYLOBACTERIOSIS; CHOLERA; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CYCLOSPORIASIS; DENGUE; DIPHTHERIA; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ENCEPHALITIS; EPIDEMIC MENINGITIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; FOOD POISONING; GROUP A STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTION; HAEMOPHILUS MENINGITIS; HANTAVIRUS INFECTION; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; HEPATITIS A; HUMAN; HUMAN GRANULOCYTIC ANAPLASMOSIS; HUMAN MONOCYTIC EHRLICHIOSIS; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; LEGIONNAIRE DISEASE; LEPTOSPIROSIS; LISTERIOSIS; LYME DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MEASLES; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MENINGOCOCCOSIS; MUMPS; ORNITHOSIS; PERTUSSIS; PLAGUE; PNEUMOCOCCAL MENINGITIS; POLIOMYELITIS; PREDICTION; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; Q FEVER; RABIES; RANDOM SAMPLE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER; RUBELLA; SALMONELLOSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SHIGELLOSIS; SMALLPOX; STRATIFIED SAMPLE; TETANUS; TOXIC SHOCK SYNDROME; TRICHINOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS; TULAREMIA; TYPHOID FEVER; UNCERTAINTY; VACCINIA; VIBRIOSIS;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 78649671800     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwq285     Document Type: Article

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