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Handbook of biosurveillance /

Provides a coherent and comprehensive account of the theory and practice of real-time human disease outbreak detection, explicitly recognizing the revolution in practices of infection control and public health surveillance. *Reviews the current mathematical, statistical, and computer science systems...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Wagner, Michael M., Moore, Andrew W., Ph.D, Aryel, Ron M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Boston : Academic Press, ©2006.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Section Contents:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Part I: The Challenge of Biodefense
  • Part II: Organizations that Conduct Biosurveillance and the Data they Collect
  • Part III: Analysis
  • Part IV. Other Sources of Surveillance Data
  • Part V: Decision Making
  • Part VI: Building Biosurveillance Systems
  • Epilogue: The Future of Biosurveillance.
  • pt. I. The challenge of biosurveillance. Introduction / Michael M. Wagner
  • Outbreaks and investigations / Virginia Dato, Richard Shephard, and Michael M. Wagner
  • Case detection, outbreak detection, and outbreak characterization / Michael M. Wagner, Louise S. Gresham, and Virginia Dato
  • Functional requirements for biosurveillance / Michael M. Wagner, Loren Shaffer, and Richard Shephard
  • pt. II. Organizations that conduct biosurveillance and the data they collect. Governmental public health / Rita Velikina, Virginia Dato, and Michael M. Wagner
  • The healthcare system / Michael M. Wagner, William R. Hogan, and Ron M. Aryel
  • Animal health / Richard Shephard, Ron M. Aryel, and Loren Shaffer
  • Laboratories / Charles Brokopp [and others]
  • Water suppliers / Jason R.E. Shepard [and others]
  • Food and pharmaceutical industries / Ron M. Aryel and T.V. (Sunil) Anklekar
  • Coroners and medical examiners / Ron M. Aryel and Michael M. Wagner
  • Other organizations that conduct biosurveillance / Michael M. Wagner [and others]
  • pt. III. Data analysis. Case detection algorithms / Fu-Chiang Tsui [and others]
  • Classical time-series methods for biosurveillance / Weng-Keen Wong and Andrew W. Moore.
  • Combining multiple signals for biosurveillance / Andrew W. Moore [and others]
  • Methods for detecting spatial and spatio-temporal clusters / Daniel B. Neill and Andrew W. Moore
  • Natural language processing for biosurveillance / Wendy W. Chapman
  • Bayesian methods for diagnosing outbreaks / Gregory F. Cooper [and others]
  • Atmospheric dispersion modeling in biosurveillance / William R. Hogan
  • Methods for algorithm evaluation / Michael M. Wagner and Garrick Wallstrom
  • pt. IV. Newer types of surveillance data. Methods for evaluating surveillance data / Michael M. Wagner
  • Sales of over-the-counter healthcare products / William R. Hogan and Michael M. Wagner
  • Chief complaints and ICD codes / Michael M. Wagner [and others]
  • Absenteeism / Leslie Lenert [and others]
  • Emergency call centers / Ron M. Aryel and Michael M. Wagner.
  • The internet as sentinel / Michael M. Wagner, Heather A. Johnson, and Virginia Dato
  • Physiologic and space-based sensors / Ron M. Aryel
  • Data NOS (not otherwise specified) / Michael M. Wagner and Murray Campbell
  • pt. V. Decision making. Decision analysis / Agnieszka Onisko, Garrick Wallstrom, and Michael M. Wagner
  • Probabilistic interpretation of surveillance data / Garrick Wallstrom, Michael M. Wagner, and Agnieska [sic] Onisko
  • Economic studies in biosurveillance / Bruce Y. Lee [and others]
  • pt. VI. Building and field testing biosurveillance systems. Information technology standards in biosurveillance / William R. Hogan and Michael M. Wagner
  • Architecture / Jeremy Espino and Michael M. Wagner
  • Advancing organizational integration: negotiation, data use agreements, law and ethics / M. Cleat Szczepaniak [and others]
  • Other design and implementation issues / Steve DeFrancesco, Kevin Hutchison, and Michael M. Wagner
  • Project management / Neil Jacobson, Sherry Daswani, and Per H. Gesteland
  • Methods for field testing of biosurveillance systems / Michael M. Wagner.