Handbook of biosurveillance / edited by Michael M. Wagner, Andrew W. Moore, Ron M. Aryel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wagner, Michael M.

Moore, Andrew W., Ph.D.

Aryel, Ron M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public health surveillance.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (621 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Boston : Academic Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 for early detection of disease outbreaks*Provides extensive coverage of existing surveillance data*Discusses experimental methods for data measurement and evaluation*Addresses engineering and practical implementation of effective early detection systems*Includes real case stu

Contents:

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

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 ... [et al.]

Water suppliers / Jason R.E. Shepard ... [et al.]

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 ... [et al.]

Case detection algorithms / Fu-Chiang Tsui ... [et al.]

Classical time-series methods for biosurveillance / Weng-Keen Wong and Andrew W. Moore

Combining multiple signals for biosurveillance / Andrew W. Moore, Brigham Anderson ... [et al.]

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 ... [et al.]

Atmospheric dispersion modeling in biosurveillance / William R. Hogan

Methods for algorithm evaluation / Michael M. Wagner and Garrick Wallstrom

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 ... [et al.]

Absenteeism / Leslie Lenert ... [et al.]

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

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 ... [et al.]

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 ... [et al.]

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-280-64137-1

9786610641376

0-08-045999-4

OCLC:

469389291