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Beyond Detection: Attack Characterization with Syndromic and Clinical Data
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Most research in syndromic surveillance has emphasized early detection, but clinical diagnosis of the index case will tend to occur before detection by syndromic surveillance for certain types of outbreaks [1]. Syndromic surveillance may, however,… read more… we conducted a simulation study using ambulatory visit records for respiratory conditions. We used a model … [1] to simulate the daily increase in syndromic clinic visits and the time to first diagnosis through blood culture … each outbreak, we injected the simulated syndromic clinic visits into baseline data and estimated the dis- ease burden …