TY - JOUR AU - Aronis, John M. AU - Millett, Nicholas E. AU - Wagner, Michael M. AU - Tsui, Fuchiang AU - Ye, Ye AU - Cooper, Gregory F. PY - 2016/03/24 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - A Method for Detecting and Characterizing Multiple Outbreaks of Infectious Diseases JF - Online Journal of Public Health Informatics JA - OJPHI VL - 8 IS - 1 SE - Oral Presentations DO - 10.5210/ojphi.v8i1.6405 UR - https://ojphi.org/ojs/index.php/ojphi/article/view/6405 SP - AB - <p class="p1">We have developed an automated system that reads emergency department clinical reports and constructs models of multiple, possibly overlapping outbreaks. The system relies on a Bayesian scoring metric and search algorithms to find appropriate models. The system has been tested on simulated and actual data with good results.</p> ER -