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Use of Time Series Models for Multi-Stream Surveillance
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Surveillance of individual data streams is a well-accepted approach to monitor community incidence of infectious diseases such as influenza, and to enable timely detection of outbreaks so that control measures can be applied.… read more… and any 3 aberrations within a 2-week period (M5). We com- pared the performance of alerts generated by the … East data, which outperformed the aggregate GP data. Con- versely, for GOPC data, the performance of alerts … Infect Dis. 2008; 14(7):1154-7. Available from http://www.cdc.gov/EID/content/14/7/1154.htm Further Information: … -
Epibasket: a prototype web tool aimed to speed up and standardize the epidemiological investigation of an outbreak
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The detailed analysis of the epidemiological literature on the 2003 SARS epidemic published in peer reviewed journals has shown that a majority (78%) of the epidemiological articles were submitted after the epidemic had ended,… read more… W Xing et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 70 value might include the Impact Factor … a time-stratified review. PLoS Med 2010;7:e1000272. 2 See www.prestashop.com, quexml.sourceforge.net/, and www. limesurvey.org. Web … -
Online Dissemination of National Influenza Surveillance Data
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Infectious disease surveillance is important for disease control as well as to inform prevention and treatment [1]. While influenza surveillance data coverage and quality has improved significantly in recent years due to resource investments and… read more… Stohr K. The global agenda on influenza surveillance and con- trol. Vaccine, 2003: 21(16)1744-8. Further Information: …