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Simulation of Correlated Outbreak Signals for Early Aberration Reporting
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The Early Aberration Reporting System was developed at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to help assist local and state health officials to focus limited resources on appropriate activities of public health… read more… temporal data sources, such as emergency department visits, drug store sales, and ambulatory clinic visits. Based on this premise, we provided correlated data … Background And Injected Signals 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 1/ 1/ 19 99 2/ 1/ 19 99 3/ 1/ 19 99 4/ 1/ 19 99 … -
Geographic Categorization Methods Used in BioSense
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BioSense is a CDC initiative to promote situational awareness through summarizing, analyzing, and presenting health related event information. Among the data sources collected and analyzed through the BioSense application are the Department of… read more… of DoD data based on the zip code of the health facility visited and the VA data based on the patient residence zip … facility based on the alternate stan- dard deviation. Visits with a mileage less than or equal to the maximum …