Enhanced health event detection and influenza surveillance using a joint Veterans Affairs and Department of Defense biosurveillance application

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Lucero, Cynthia A ^a   Oda, Gina ^a   Cox, Kenneth ^b   Maldonado, Frank ^c   Lombardo, Joseph ^d   Wojcik, Richard ^d   Holodniy, Mark ^a  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center   (United States)

^c DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOSURVEILLANCE; EPIDEMIC; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; MALE; METHODOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNITED STATES;

BIOSURVEILLANCE; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS;

EID: 80052838374     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6947-11-56     Document Type: Article

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