Using chief complaints for syndromic surveillance: A review of chief complaint based classifiers in North America

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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Biomedical Informatics

سال: 2013

ISSN: 1532-0464

DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2013.04.003