Disease mentions in airport and hospital geolocations expose dominance of news events for disease concerns

Journal of Biomedical Semantics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Barros, Joana M ^a   Duggan, Jim ^a   Rebholz Schuhmann, Dietrich ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Disease surveillance; Geolocation; MetaMap; Part of speech tagging; SNOMED CT; Social media

Indexed keywords

AIRPORT; DATA MINING; DISEASES; GEOGRAPHY; HOSPITAL; SOCIAL MEDIA;

AIRPORTS; DATA MINING; DISEASE; GEOGRAPHY; HOSPITALS; SOCIAL MEDIA;

EID: 85048502380     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13326-018-0186-9     Document Type: Article

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