Linking Surveillance to Action: Incorporation of Real-time Regional Data into a Medical Decision Rule
Author(s) -
Alan Fine,
Lise E. Nigrovic,
Ben Y. Reis,
E. Francis Cook,
Kenneth D. Mandl
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
journal of the american medical informatics association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.614
H-Index - 150
eISSN - 1527-974X
pISSN - 1067-5027
DOI - 10.1197/jamia.m2253
Subject(s) - aseptic meningitis , context (archaeology) , epidemiology , meningitis , medicine , intensive care medicine , pediatrics , paleontology , biology
Broadly, to create a bidirectional communication link between public health surveillance and clinical practice. Specifically, to measure the impact of integrating public health surveillance data into an existing clinical prediction rule. We incorporate data about recent local trends in meningitis epidemiology into a prediction model differentiating aseptic from bacterial meningitis.
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