A review of evaluations of electronic event-based biosurveillance systems.

Electronic event-based biosurveillance systems (EEBS's) that use near real-time information from the internet are an increasingly important source of epidemiologic intelligence. However, there has not been a systematic assessment of EEBS evaluations, which could identify key uncertainties about...

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Main Authors: Kimberly N Gajewski, Amy E Peterson, Rohit A Chitale, Julie A Pavlin, Kevin L Russell, Jean-Paul Chretien
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4203831?pdf=render