Hand, foot and mouth disease in China: evaluating an automated system for the detection of outbreaks

• Main Authors: Zhongjie Li (Author), Shengjie Lai (Author), Honglong Zhang (Author), Liping Wang (Author), Dinglun Zhou (Author), Jizeng Liu (Author), Yajia Lan (Author), Jiaqi Ma (Author), Hongjie Yu (Author), David L Buckeridge (Author), Chakrarat Pittayawonganan (Author), Archie CA Clements (Author), Wenbiao Hu (Author), Weizhong Yang (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: The World Health Organization, 2014-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Objective To evaluate the performance of China's infectious disease automated alert and response system in the detection of outbreaks of hand, foot and mouth (HFM) disease. Methods We estimated size, duration and delay in reporting HFM disease outbreaks from cases notified between 1 May 2008 an...