Can long-term historical data from electronic medical records improve surveillance for epidemics of acute respiratory infections? A systematic evaluation

• Hongzhang Zheng,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, Veterans Affairs Maryland Health Care System, Baltimore, MD, United States of America, School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

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• William H. Woodall,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Statistics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States of America

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• Abigail L. Carlson,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

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• Sylvain DeLisle

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: sylvain.delisle@utsouthwestern.edu

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, Veterans Affairs Maryland Health Care System, Baltimore, MD, United States of America, School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2212-6996

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