title: [Study advance on the alert methods of infectious disease].
abstract: After the epidemic of SARS in 2003, China has paid more attention to alert of infectious diseases and has established the credible disease information systems and enhanced the control systems, but the ability of making alert decisions of infectious disease outbreaks by using disease early detection methods needs to be improved. In this paper, the indexes related to alert of infectious diseases, and data analysis, and the timeliness of alert and the evaluation of the alert were reviewed.
authors.affiliation: Union School of Public Health, Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100005, China.
authors.forename: Fen
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Ma
authors.forename: Li
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Hui
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Li
mesh_terms: D002681:China / Q000453:epidemiology; D003141:Communicable Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D004196:Disease Outbreaks / Q000517:prevention & control*; D004812:Epidemiologic Methods; D006801:Humans; D011159:Population Surveillance / Q000379:methods*; D040442:Public Health Informatics / Q000295:instrumentation*