Method selection and adaptation for distributed monitoring of infectious diseases for syndromic surveillance

Journal of Biomedical Informatics

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1093-1101

  Xing, Jian ^a   Burkom, Howard ^b   Tokars, Jerome ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Algorithm evaluation; Automated disease surveillance; Outbreak detection; Poisson regression

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM EVALUATION; AUTOMATED DATA; AUTOMATED DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; AUTOMATED SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM; DISTRIBUTED MONITORING; EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; OUTBREAK DETECTION; POISSON MODEL; POISSON REGRESSION; POISSON REGRESSION MODELS; REGRESSION METHOD; REGRESSION MODEL; SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS; SYNDROMIC SURVEILLANCE; TIME SERIES METHOD; TIME-PERIODS;

AUTOMATION; DISEASES; HOSPITALS; MONITORING; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SECURITY SYSTEMS; TIME SERIES;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; ASTHMA; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EMERGENCY WARD; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HUMAN; INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS MONITORING; RASH; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SYNDROME;

BIOTERRORISM; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84855911404     PISSN: 15320464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2011.08.012     Document Type: Article

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