Correction: Hospitalization records as a tool for evaluating performance of food- And water-borne disease surveillance systems: a Massachusetts case study (PLoS ONE (2014) 9, 4 (e93744) DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0093744);Hospitalization records as a tool for evaluating performance of food- and water-borne disease surveillance systems: A massachusetts case study

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Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Mor, Siobhan M ^a,b,c   DeMaria Jr , Alfred ^d   Naumova, Elena N ^c,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e Tufts University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CAMPYLOBACTERIOSIS; CASE STUDY; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; FOOD POISONING; GIARDIASIS; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL RECORD; MORBIDITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SALMONELLOSIS; SHIGELLOSIS; TYPHOID FEVER; UNITED STATES; WATER BORNE DISEASE; WATER CONTAMINATION; ZOONOSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; FOODBORNE DISEASES; HOSPITAL; INFECTION CONTROL; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PROCEDURES; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SALMONELLA INFECTIONS; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DISEASE NOTIFICATION; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; FOODBORNE DISEASES; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MASSACHUSETTS; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RECORDS AS TOPIC; RISK ASSESSMENT; SALMONELLA INFECTIONS;

EID: 84899689243     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0104143     Document Type: Erratum

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