Evaluation of Epidemic Intelligence Systems Integrated in the Early Alerting and Reporting Project for the Detection of A/H5N1 Influenza Events

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Barboza, Philippe ^a   Vaillant, Laetitia ^a   Mawudeku, Abla ^b   Nelson, Noele P ^c   Hartley, David M ^c   Madoff, Lawrence C ^d   Linge, Jens P ^e   Collier, Nigel ^f   Brownstein, John S ^g   Yangarber, Roman ^h   Astagneau, Pascal ⁱ  

^a INSTITUT DE VEILLE SANITAIRE   (France)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^c GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d International Society for Infectious Diseases   (United States)

^e JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS   (Japan)

^g BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

ⁱ SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; ELECTRONIC DATA INTERCHANGE; EPIDEMIC INTELLIGENCE SYSTEMS; EVALUATION RESEARCH; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; INFLUENZA A (H5N1); INFLUENZA VIRUS A H5N1; INFORMATION SYSTEM; INTEGRATED HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; ONLINE SYSTEM; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROCESS CONTROL; PROCESS DESIGN; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; PROCESS TECHNOLOGY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL DETECTION; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; VIRUS DETECTION; COMPUTER SYSTEM; EPIDEMIC; EVALUATION STUDY; FACTUAL DATABASE; HEALTH; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFLUENZA A VIRUS (H5N1); INFLUENZA, HUMAN; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUESTIONNAIRE;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EPIDEMICS; GLOBAL HEALTH; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H5N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCE; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84874620034     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0057252     Document Type: Article

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