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A Comparison of Ambulatory Care and Emergency Department Encounters as Data Sources for Detection of Clusters of Lower Gastrointestinal Illness
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We sought to compare ambulatory care (AC) and emergency department (ED) data for the detection of clusters of lower gastrointestinal illness, using AC and ED data and AC+ED data combined, from two geographically separate health plans participating… read more… We sought to compare ambulatory care (AC) and emergency department (ED) data for the … A Comparison of Ambulatory Care and Emergency Department Encounters as Data Sources for … We sought to compare ambulatory care (AC) and emergency department (ED) data for the … -
Multi-Syndrome Analysis of Time Series: A New Concept for Outbreak Investigation
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Temporal anomaly detection is a key component of real time surveillance. Today, despite the abundance of temporal information on multiple syndromes, multivariate investigation of temporal anomalies remains under-explored. Traditionally, an outbreak… read more… Lab; 3Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care OBJECTIVE The objectives of this study are to develop a … the multivariate technique compared with those of stan- dard uni-syndrome analysis, and to put forward a new … -
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… 1Brigham and Women’s Hospital, 2Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Harvard Medical School, 3Departamento Bacteriología, …