Factors influencing performance of internet-based biosurveillance systems used in epidemic intelligence for early detection of infectious diseases outbreaks.

BACKGROUND: Internet-based biosurveillance systems have been developed to detect health threats using information available on the Internet, but system performance has not been assessed relative to end-user needs and perspectives. METHOD AND FINDINGS: Infectious disease events from the French Instit...

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Main Authors: Philippe Barboza, Laetitia Vaillant, Yann Le Strat, David M Hartley, Noele P Nelson, Abla Mawudeku, Lawrence C Madoff, Jens P Linge, Nigel Collier, John S Brownstein, Pascal Astagneau
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3944226?pdf=render