Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 44, Issue 3 , Pages 235-241, September 2004

Syndromic surveillance: the effects of syndrome grouping on model accuracy and outbreak detection☆☆☆

  • Ben Y. Reis, PhD

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    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress for correspondence: Ben Y. Reis, PhD, c/o Marie Boyle, Children's Hospital Informatics Program, Room 561, 320 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115; 617-355-7333, fax 617-277-0496
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  • Kenneth D. Mandl, MD, MPH

From the Children's Hospital Boston (Reis, Mandl), and Harvard Medical School (Mandl), Boston, MA USA

Received 13 May 2003; received in revised form 7 January 2004 and 10 March 2004; accepted 26 March 2004. published online 19 August 2004.

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☆ Author contributions: BYR and KDM conceived the study and designed the experiments. KDM undertook recruitment of participating hospitals, developed the data sets, and obtained institutional review board approval. BYR developed the simulations and performed the analyses and integration of the results. BYR and KDM formulated the findings, and both had equal roles in drafting and revising the manuscript. BYR takes responsibility for the paper as a whole.

☆☆ Supported by the National Institutes of Health through a grant from the National Library of Medicine (R01LM07677-01), by contract 290-00-0020 from the Agency for Health Care Quality and Research, and by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (grant 2002-12-1).Reprints not available from the authors.

PII: S0196-0644(04)00311-7

doi:10.1016/j.annemergmed.2004.03.030

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 44, Issue 3 , Pages 235-241, September 2004

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