Transnational record linkage for tuberculosis surveillance and program evaluation

Public Health Reports

Volumn 130, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 475-484

  Aiona, Kaylynn ^a   Lowenthal, Phillip ^b   Painter, John A ^c   Reves, Randall ^a   Flood, Jennifer ^b   Parker, Matthew ^a   Fu, Yunxin ^d   Wall, Kirsten ^a   Walter, Nicholas D ^a,e  

^a DENVER PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Division of Communicable Disease Control   (United States)

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE REGISTRY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; IMMIGRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHILIPPINES; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRAM EVALUATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL; UNITED STATES; VIET NAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH SURVEY; MASS SCREENING; MEDICAL RECORD; MICROBIOLOGY; MIGRANT; PROBABILITY; PROCEDURES; REGISTER; SPUTUM; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

CALIFORNIA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; MEDICAL RECORD LINKAGE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHILIPPINES; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PROBABILITY; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; REGISTRIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPUTUM; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY; UNITED STATES; VIETNAM;

EID: 84940374561     PISSN: 00333549     EISSN: 14682877     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/003335491513000511     Document Type: Article

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