A Context-sensitive Approach to Anonymizing Spatial Surveillance Data: Impact on Outbreak Detection
Open Access
- 1 March 2006
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
- Vol. 13 (2) , 160-165
- https://doi.org/10.1197/jamia.m1920
Abstract
Objective: The use of spatially based methods and algorithms in epidemiology and surveillance presents privacy challenges for researchers and publicKeywords
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