Approaches to the evaluation of outbreak detection methods

BMC Public Health

Table 1 Key papers used to conduct the Web of Science search 1999–2004 and search results

First author	Year	Source	Number of papers citing*
Serfling RE	1963	Public Health Rep; 78:494-506	48
Stroup DF	1989	Stat Med; 8:323-9	28
Kulldorff M	1995	Stat Med; 14:799-810	74
Farrington P	1996	J R Stat Soc A; 159:547-63	12
Hutwagner L	1997	Emerging Infect Dis; 3:395-400	28
Stern L	1999	Epidemiol Infect; 122:103-10	15
Kulldorff M	2001	J R Stat Soc A;164:61-72	16
Lazarus R	2001	BMC Public Health; 1:9	16
Rogerson PA	2001	J R Stat Soc A;164:87-96	11
Tsui FC	2001	Proc AMIA Symp; 2001:711-15	10
Wagner MM	2001	J Public Health Manag Pract;7:51-9	10
Barthell EN	2002	Ann Emerg Med; 39:422-9	13
Lober WB	2002	JAMIA; 9:105-15	23
Das D	2003	J Urban Health; 80:i76-88	7
Mostashari F	2003	Emerging Infect Dis; 9:641-6	9
Reis BY	2003	BMC Med Inform Decis Mak; 3(1):2	8
Sosin DM	2003	J Urban Health; 80:i8-13	5
Buehler JW	2004	MMWR Recomm Rep; 53:(RR-5)	2

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