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Accounting for Acceleration of Disease Rates with Age in Biosurveillance Systems: The SIMPLE Method
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Accurate and precise estimation of disease rates for a given population during a specified time frame is a major concern for public health practitioners and researchers in biosurveillance. Many diseases follow distinct patterns;… read more -
Enteric Disease Surveillance: Seasonal Changes in Population Profiles
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In the last decade, time series analysis has become one of the most important tools of surveillance systems. Understanding the nature of temporal fluctuations is essential for successful development of outbreak detection algorithms, aberration… read more -
Calendar effects to forecast influenza seasonality: A case study in Milwaukee, WI
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Influenza viral infection is contentious, has a short incubation period, yet preventable if multiple barriers are employed. At some extend school holidays and travel restrictions serve as a socially accepted control measure. A study of a… read more -
What Happens in Vegas, Doesn’t Stay in Vegas: Traveling Waves of Influenza in the US Elderly Population, 1991-2004
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Influenza is a significant public health problems in the US leading to over one million hospitalizations in the elderly population (age 65 and over) annually. While influenza preparedness is an important public health issue, previous… read more -
Infectious Outbreaks and Time-Distributed Effects of Exposure
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The objective of this communication is to demonstrate an approach for modeling time-distributed effects of exposures to cases of infection which can be utilized in syndromic surveillance systems for characterizing, detecting, and forecasting a… read more -
Seasonal Patterns of Respiratory Diseases: a Proxy for Influenza?
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One of the most important goals of disease surveillance is to identify the "what" and "when" of an epidemic. Influenza surveillance is made difficult by inconsistent laboratory testing, deficiencies in testing techniques, and coding… read more -
Effective Collaboration Models for Statiscians and Public Health Departments
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Public health departments need enhanced surveillance tools for population monitoring, and external researchers have expertise and methods to provide these tools. However, collaboration with potential solution developers and students in academia,… read more