Comparing timeliness, content, and disease severity of formal and informal source outbreak reporting

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Bahk, Chi Y ^a   Scales, David A ^a   Mekaru, Sumiko R ^a   Brownstein, John S ^a   Freifeld, Clark C ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Disease notification; Disease outbreaks; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ACCURACY; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DOCUMENTATION; EPIDEMIC; FORMAL SOURCE OUTBREAK REPORTING; INFORMAL SOURCE OUTBREAK REPORTING; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION SYSTEM; PUBLIC HEALTH; CLASSIFICATION; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; FACTUAL DATABASE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; PROCEDURES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DISEASE NOTIFICATION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84925273702     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12879-015-0885-0     Document Type: Article

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