Data-driven discovery of seasonally linked diseases from an Electronic Health Records system

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 15, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Melamed, Rachel D ^a   Khiabanian, Hossein ^a   Rabadan, Raul ^a  

^a Department of Neurology and the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; RECORDS MANAGEMENT;

AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CLINICAL INFORMATION; DISEASE INCIDENCE; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; INFECTIOUS AGENTS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASE; TEMPORAL INFORMATION;

DIAGNOSIS;

ARTICLE; DISEASES; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; RISK FACTOR; SEASON;

DISEASE; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HUMANS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; RISK FACTORS; SEASONS;

EID: 84907412672     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-15-S6-S3     Document Type: Article

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