Automated identification of acute hepatitis B using electronic medical record data to facilitate public health surveillance.

Automatic identification of notifiable diseases from electronic medical records can potentially improve the timeliness and completeness of public health surveillance. We describe the development and implementation of an algorithm for prospective surveillance of patients with acute hepatitis B using...

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Main Authors: Michael Klompas, Gillian Haney, Daniel Church, Ross Lazarus, Xuanlin Hou, Richard Platt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2008-07-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2440348?pdf=render