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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 -
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 -
Seasonal Synchronization of Influenza in the United States Older Adult Population
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Elena Naumova, Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine joined the August 2010 ISDS Literature Review to present her paper "Seasonal Synchronization of Influenza in the United States Older Adult… read more