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Benchmarking Temporal Surveillance Techniques
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Benchmarking of temporal surveillance techniques is a critical step in the development of an effective syndromic surveillance system. Unfortunately, holding “bakeoffs” to blindly compare approaches is a difficult and often fruitless enterprise, in… read more… we dem- onstrate an approach for this process based on a com- mon analytical development and benchmarking with common … [1] Reis BY, Pagano M, Mandl KD, Using temporal con- text to improve surveillance, PNAS. 2003;100(4):1961- … -
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.… made among them. Alternatively, these data sources can be com- bined in order to generate a common sequence of … -
Detection of Shigella Outbreaks in Argentina Using WHONET and SaTScan
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Electronic laboratory-based surveillance can significantly improve the diagnostic specificity and response time of traditional infectious disease surveillance. Under the project “Models of Infectious Disease Agent Study”, we… read more… Software for the spatial and time-scan statistics. http://www.satscan.org, 2006. [2] Rossi A, Tokumoto M, Galas M, … and analysis of microbiology laboratory results. http://www.who.int/drugresistance/whonetsoftware, 2007. Further … John Stelling, jstelling@rics.bwh.harvard.edu www.who.int/drugresistance/whonetsoftware Advances in … -
WHONET and BacLink: Software Tools for Laboratory-Based Surveillance of Infectious Diseases and Antimicrobial Resistance
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Clinical and public health microbiology laboratories of the world are a rich, underutilized resource in monitoring the changing epidemiology of microbial populations worldwide. Two areas of public health importance in which effective use of relevant… read more… Software for the spatial and time-scan statistics. http://www.satscan.org, 2006. Further Information: John Stelling, jstelling@rics.bwh.harvard.edu www.who.int/drugresistance/whonetsoftware Advances in … -
Empirical/Asymptotic P-Values for Monte Carlo-Based Hypothesis Testing: An Application to Cluster Detection Using the Scan Statistic
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SaTScan is a freely available software that uses the scan statistic to detect clusters in space, time or space-time. SaTScan uses Monte Carlo hypothesis testing in order to produce a p-value for the null hypothesis that no… read more… for the spatial and space-time scan statistics. 2004, www.satscan.org. [2] Kulldorff, M, A spatial scan statistic. … -
Telephone Triage Data for Detection of Influenza-like Illness
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National surveillance is used to detect the emergence and spread of influenza virus variants and to monitor influenza-related morbidity and mortality. Nurse telephone triage (“call”) data may serve as a useful complement to… read more… CA 3,136,617 0.80 0.85 0.89 WI 825,255 0.67 0.81 0.87 CO 558,705 0.82 0.96 0.86 TX 2,529,566 0.83 0.97 0.85 IL …