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The Day-of-the-Week Effect: A Study Across the Indiana Public Health Emergency Surveillance System
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Complex, highly parameterized data models are often used to detect syndromic outbreaks. Unfortunately, such models can pose greater maintenance challenges as parameter variations increase. As such, our work focuses on whether day… read more… our work focuses on whether day-of-the-week (DoW) effects may (or may not) show little variation across hospitals. … cations of chief complaint as well as the total daily visits. To compare across hospitals, we normalized the … or insignificantly across data sources. We found that visit rates by syndrome varied significantly by DoW Further, … -
A Visual Analytics Toolkit for Evaluating Potential Syndromic Outbreaks
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Our toolkit adds statistical trend analysis, interactive plots, and kernel density estimation to an existing spatio-temporal visualization platform. The goal of these tools is to provide both a quick assessment of the current… read more… The sample data used for this toolkit come from over 70 emergency rooms throughout the state of Indiana. … The sample data used for this toolkit come from over 70 emergency rooms throughout the state of Indiana. METHODS … are marked with a red disc. At this point, the analyst may decide to take action or to simply monitor the area more …