Handbook of biosurveillance Introduction Michael M. Wagner Outbreaks and investigations Virginia Dato Richard Shephard and Michael M. Wagner Case detection outbreak detection and outbreak characterization Michael M. Wagner Louise S. Gresham and Virginia Dato Functional requirements for biosurveillance Michael M. Wagner Loren Shaffer and Richard Shephard Governmental public health Rita Velikina Virginia Dato and Michael M. Wagner The healthcare system Michael M. Wagner William R. Hogan and Ron M. Aryel Animal health Richard Shephard Ron M. Aryel and Loren Shaffer Laboratories Charles Brokopp ... [et al.] Water suppliers Jason R.E. Shepard ... [et al.] Food and pharmaceutical industries Ron M. Aryel and T.V. (Sunil) Anklekar Coroners and medical examiners Ron M. Aryel and Michael M. Wagner Other organizations that conduct biosurveillance Michael M. Wagner ... [et al.] Case detection algorithms Fu Chiang Tsui ... [et al.] Classical time series methods for biosurveillance Weng Keen Wong and Andrew W. Moore Combining multiple signals for biosurveillance Andrew W. Moore Brigham Anderson ... [et al.] Methods for detecting spatial and spatio temporal clusters Daniel B. Neill and Andrew W. Moore Natural language processing for biosurveillance Wendy W. Chapman Bayesian methods for diagnosing outbreaks Gregory F. Cooper ... [et al.] Atmospheric dispersion modeling in biosurveillance William R. Hogan Methods for algorithm evaluation Michael M. Wagner and Garrick Wallstrom Methods for evaluating surveillance data Michael M. Wagner Sales of over the counter healthcare products William R. Hogan and Michael M. Wagner Chief complaints and ICD codes Michael M. Wagner ... [et al.] Absenteeism Leslie Lenert ... [et al.] Emergency call centers Ron M. Aryel and Michael M. Wagner The internet as sentinel Michael M. Wagner Heather A. Johnson and Virginia Dato Physiologic and space based sensors Ron M. Aryel Data NOS (not otherwise specified) Michael M. Wagner and Murray Campbell Decision analysis Agnieszka Onisko Garrick Wallstrom and Michael M. Wagner Probabilistic interpretation of surveillance data Garrick Wallstrom Michael M. Wagner and Agnieska [sic] Onisko Economic studies in biosurveillance Bruce Y. Lee ... [et al.] Information technology standards in biosurveillance William R. Hogan and Michael M. Wagner Architecture Jeremy Espino and Michael M. Wagner Advancing organizational integration: negotiation data use agreements law and ethics M. Cleat Szczepaniak ... [et al.] Other design and implementation issues Steve DeFrancesco Kevin Hutchison and Michael M. Wagner Project management Neil Jacobson Sherry Daswani and Per H. Gesteland Methods for field testing of biosurveillance systems Michael M. Wagner