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  • Multi-Method Comparison of Detecting Common Events of Public Health Interest: a Multi-Site, Multi-Stream Simulation Study

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    Existing statistical methods can perform well in detecting simulated bioterrorism events. However, these methods have not been well-evaluated for detection of the type of respiratory and gastrointestinal events of greatest… read more
    … Existing statistical methods can perform well in de- tecting simulated bioterrorism events [1]. However, these methods have not been well-evaluated for de- tection of the type of respiratory and gastrointestinal … signal extent was nearly as good as the best method in all cases. Table 2: Results Sim. Best method WROC (max = 1) …
  • Comparing the Utility of Ambulatory Care and Emergency Room Data for Disease Outbreak Detection

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    To compare the ability to detect disease outbreaks of separate and combined data streams from ambulatory care and emergency department from Harvard Pilgrim Health Care.
    … in a variety of settings, including hospital emergency de- partments and ambulatory clinics resulting in multi- ple …