Applied Clinical Informatics Article
Acute diarrheal syndromic surveillance: effects of weather and holidays.
In an effort to identify and characterize the environmental factors that affect the number of patients with acute diarrheal (AD) syndrome, we developed and tested two regional surveillance models including holiday and weather information in addition to visitor records, at emergency medical facilities in the Seoul metropolitan area of Korea.
Author(s): Kam, H J, Choi, S, Cho, J P, Min, Y G, Park, R W
DOI: 10.4338/ACI-2009-12-RA-0024