Validation of a Pediatric Primary Care Network in a US Metropolitan Region as a Community-Based Infectious Disease Surveillance System

This cross-sectional study used Geographic Information System methods to compare sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of children enrolled and not enrolled in a primary care network to determine the suitability of the network to estimate population-based disease rates. We validated the netw...

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Main Authors: Kristen A. Feemster, Yimei Li, Robert Grundmeier, A. Russell Localio, Joshua P. Metlay
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2011-01-01
Series:Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Infectious Diseases
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/219859