A review of evaluations of electronic event-based biosurveillance systems

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Gajewski, Kimberly N ^a   Peterson, Amy E ^b   Chitale, Rohit A ^b   Pavlin, Julie A ^b   Russell, Kevin L ^b   Chretien, Jean Paul ^b  

^a Federal Emergency Management Agency   (United States)

^b Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOSURVEILLANCE; ELECTRONIC EVENT BASED BIOSURVEILLANCE SYSTEM; EVALUATION STUDY; HEALTH; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SYSTEM; INTERNET; MEDLINE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLICATION; UNCERTAINTY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN;

BIOSURVEILLANCE; HUMANS; INTERNET; PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCE; PUBMED;

EID: 84908193605     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0111222     Document Type: Article

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