Relationship between the population incidence of pertussis in children in New South Wales, Australia and emergency department visits with cough: A time series analysis

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Cashmore, Aaron W ^a,b   Muscatello, David J ^b,c   Merrifield, Alistair ^c   Spokes, Paula ^c   MacArtney, Kristine ^d,e   Jalaludin, Bin B ^b,f  

^a New South Wales Government   (Australia)

^b NEW SOUTH WALES MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d NATIONAL CENTRE FOR IMMUNISATION RESEARCH AND SURVEILLANCE   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^f Evidence Management and Surveillance (REMS)   (Australia)

Author keywords

Pertussis; Syndromic surveillance; Time series analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS; PERTUSSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; UTILIZATION REVIEW; VIRAL BRONCHIOLITIS;

BRONCHIOLITIS, VIRAL; CHILD; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENTS; HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS; NEW SOUTH WALES; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; TIME AND MOTION STUDIES; WHOOPING COUGH;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84875289717     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6947-13-40     Document Type: Article

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