Using automated medical records for rapid identification of illness syndromes (syndromic surveillance): the example of lower respiratory infection

• Main Authors: Dashevsky Inna (Author), Kleinman Ken P (Author), Lazarus Ross (Author), DeMaria Alfred (Author), Platt Richard (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Gaps in disease surveillance capacity, particularly for emerging infections and bioterrorist attack, highlight a need for efficient, real time identification of diseases.</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>We studied autom...