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Surveillance for acute respiratory infections: should we include all outpatient visits or focus on urgent care areas?
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A comprehensive electronic medical record (EMR) represents a rich source of information that can be harnessed for epidemic surveillance. At this time, however, we do not know how EMR-based data elements should be combined to … read more… on urgent visits would outperform one that monitored all outpatient visits. Document … illance_For_Acute_Respiratory_Infections_Should_We_Include_All_Outpatient_Visits_Or_Focus_On_Urgent_Care_Areas.pdf 8 … for acute respiratory infections: should we include all outpatient visits or focus on urgent care areas? H … -
Fast subset scan for multivariate spatial biosurveillance
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The spatial scan statistic detects significant spatial clusters of disease by maximizing a likelihood ratio statistic over a large set of spatial regions. Several recent approaches have extended spatial scan to multiple data streams. Burkom… read more… scan statistic. Commun Statist: Theory and Methods 1997;26:1481–96. 2 Burkom HS. Biosurveillance applying scan … scan statistics for disease surveillance. Stat Med 2007;26:1824–33. 4 Neill DB. Fast and flexible outbreak detection by linear-time subset scanning. Adv Dis Surveill 2008;5:48. 5 Neill DB, McFowland E, Zheng H. …