Self-reported fever and measured temperature in emergency department records used for syndromic surveillance

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 775-776

  Kass Hout, Taha A ^a   Buckeridge, David ^b   Brownstein, John ^c   Xu, Zhiheng ^a,d   McMurray, Paul ^a   Ishikawa, Charles K T ^e   Gunn, Julia ^f   Massoudi, Barbara L ^g  

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

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d Global Health Sector   (United States)

^e International Society for Disease Surveillance   (United States)

^f Boston Public Health Commissions   (United States)

^g RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEVER; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PUBLIC HEALTH; SELF REPORT; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH SURVEY; INFECTION CONTROL; METHODOLOGY; SELF EVALUATION; STATISTICS; THERMOMETRY; UNITED STATES;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; DIAGNOSTIC SELF EVALUATION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEVER; HUMANS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; THERMOMETRY; TRIAGE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84872259364     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: 1527974X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2012-000847     Document Type: Article

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