Health Surveillance
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Rigdon, Steven E.
Fricker, Ronald D.
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2015
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This chapter describes the application of statistical methods for health
surveillance, including those for health care quality monitoring and those for disease
surveillance. The former includes adverse event surveillance as well as the
monitoring of non-disease health outcomes, such as rates of caesarean section or
hospital readmission rates. The latter includes various types of disease surveillance,
including traditional surveillance as well as syndromic surveillance. The methods
described are drawn from the industrial quality control and monitoring literature
where they are frequently referred to as “control charts.” The chapter includes a detailed
background of that literature as well as a discussion of the criteria and metrics
used to assess the performance of methods of health surveillance methods.
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Operations Research
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.