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Assessing address data quality for public health surveillance in Montreal
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In Montreal, notifiable diseases are reported to the Public Health Department (PHD). Of 44, 250 disease notifications received in 2009, up to 25% had potential address errors. These can be introduced during transcription, handwriting… read more -
Aiding the practice of tuberculosis control: a decision support model to predict transmission
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A new TB case can be classified as: 1) a source case for transmission leading to other, secondary active TB cases; 2) a secondary case, resulting from recent transmission; or 3) an isolated case, uninvolved in recent transmission (i.e. neither… read more -
The influence of address errors on detecting outbreaks of campylobacteriosis
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Mandatory notification to public health of priority communicable diseases (CDs) is a cornerstone of disease prevention and control programs. Increasingly, the addresses of CD cases are used for spatial monitoring and cluster detection… read more -
Quantifying the potential benefit of early detection for preventing morbidity and mortality: a simulation study of cryptosporidium outbreak
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Many studies evaluate the timeliness and accuracy of outbreak detection algorithms used in syndromic surveillance. Of greater interest, however, is defining the outcome associated with improved detection. In case of a waterborne cryptosporidiosis… read more