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Automated Surveillance To Detect An Influenza Epidemic: Which Respiratory Syndrome Should We Monitor?
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OBJECTIVE Syndromic surveillance systems (SSS) seek early detection of infectious diseases outbreaks by focusing on pre-diagnostic symptoms. We do not yet know which respiratory syndrome should be monitored for a SSS to discover… read more… week of the study year. To distinguish between true- and back- ground-positive alarms, the daily statistics were per- formed on paired background+injection vs. back- ground-only time series. We computed two bench- marks: … yet retained a sensitivity of 69-100% (Models 4 and 6). Com pared to the “respiratory” ICD-9 codeset used by CDC’s … -
Using Biosurveillance Whole-System Facsimiles To Compare Aberrancy-Detection Methods: Should BioSense Use SatScan?
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OBJECTIVE A “whole-system facsimile” recreates a complex automated biosurveillance system running prospectively on real historical datasets. We systematized this approach to compare the performance of otherwise… read more… alarms, the daily sta- tistics were performed on paired back- ground+injection vs. background-only time series. For …