Establishing a web-based integrated surveillance system for early detection of infectious disease epidemic in rural China: A field experimental study

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Yan, Wei Rong ^a,b   Nie, Shao Fa ^b   Xu, Biao ^c   Dong, Heng Jin ^d   Palm, Lars ^e   Diwan, Vinod K ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^e Box 975   (Sweden)

Author keywords

early warning; infectious disease; resource limited settings; Syndromic surveillance

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHINA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERNET; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; METHODOLOGY;

CHINA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EPIDEMICS; HUMANS; INTERNET; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PUBLIC HEALTH INFORMATICS;

EID: 84856421349     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6947-12-4     Document Type: Article

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