Optimizing the response to surveillance alerts in automated surveillance systems

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 442-454

  Izadi, Masoumeh ^a   Buckeridge, David L ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Error bounds; Perturbation analysis; Public health surveillance; Sequential decision making; Uncertain information analysis

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALARM MONITORING; ALGORITHM; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ANTHRAX; ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; BIOSURVEILLANCE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; EPIDEMIC; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; PROBABILITY; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNCERTAINTY;

ALGORITHMS; ANTHRAX; BAYES THEOREM; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BIOSURVEILLANCE; BIOTERRORISM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; MARKOV CHAINS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79851477467     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3922     Document Type: Article

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