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Challenges and Opportunities in Routine Time Series Analysis of Surveillance Data

Description

ECDC long term strategies for surveillance include analysis of trends of communicable disease of public health importance for European Union countries to guide public health actions. The European Surveillance System (TESSy) holds data on 49 communicable diseases reported by 30 countries for at least the past five years. To simplify time related analysis using surveillance data, ECDC launched a project to enable descriptive and routine TSA without the need for complex programming.

Objective

To discuss challenges and opportunities in the introduction of an automated approach for time series analysis (TSA) regarding epidemiological methodology for generation of hypotheses, steps to be performed and interpretation of outputs.

 

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