title: Hospital discharge databases in the surveillance of infectious diseases: Is their use warranted?
authors.forename: A T
authors.initials: AT
authors.lastname: Koutsavlis
mesh_terms: D003141:Communicable Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D010351:Patient Discharge; D011159:Population Surveillance / Q000379:methods*; D014481:United States