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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 -
An Empirical Study of the Effect of Sentinel Sample Size in Syndromic Surveillance Using a Space-Time Permutation Method
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Our goal was to assess the impact of sentinel sample size and criteria for a signal on performance of daily prospective space-time permutation detection by comparing results in varying size random samples from a large health plan to results found in… read more -
Clustering under the Null: One Reason for Too Many Signals
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I examine the nature and expression of the null hypothesis often used in spatial surveillance. I also show an example of how incorrect specification of the null can lead to excess signals without interesting outbreaks, and argue that this may be a… read more -
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. -
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 -
Evaluating Outbreak-Detection Methods Using Simulations: Volume Under the Time-ROC Surface
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There are many proposed methods of identifying outbreaks of disease in surveillance data. However, there is little agreement about appropriate ways to choose amongst them. One common basis for comparison is simulating outbreaks and adding the simu… read more -
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 -
The SAS/SaTScan Macro Accessory for Cartography (SMAC) Package
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SaTScan is a program often used for space-time cluster detection. In order to run SaTScan, the data must be in a pre-specified text format. Once the input files are in the correct format, the typical user opens SaTScan, chooses… read more