Public health surveillance with electronic medical records: At risk of surveillance bias and overdiagnosis

European Journal of Public Health

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 350-351

  Chiolero, Arnaud ^a,b   Santschi, Valérie ^a,b   Paccaud, Fred ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b Observatoire Valaisan de la Santé OVS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRONIC DISEASE; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PROCEDURES; RISK FACTOR; STANDARDS; STATISTICAL BIAS; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURE;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CHRONIC DISEASE; DATA COLLECTION; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCE; RISK FACTORS; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURES;

EID: 84878332975     PISSN: 11011262     EISSN: 1464360X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurpub/ckt044     Document Type: Note

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