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Effect of Work-related Mobility in the Simulation of Aerosol Anthrax Releases with BARD
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An important problem in biosurveillance is the early detection and characterization of outdoor aerosol releases of B. anthracis. The Bayesian Aerosol Release Detector (BARD) is a system for simulating, detecting and characterizing such releases… read more… of B. anthracis. The Bayesian Aerosol Release Detector (BARD) is a system for simulating, detecting and characterizing such releases. BARD integrates the analysis of medical surveillance data and meteorological data. The existing version of BARD does not account for the fact that many people might be … -
Modeling Clinician Detection Time of a Disease Outbreak Due to Inhalational Anthrax
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We developed a probabilistic model of how clinicians are expected to detect a disease outbreak due to an outdoor release of anthrax spores, when the clinicians only have access to traditional clinical information (e.g., no computer-based alerts). We… read more… the model assumes that a patient is only seen by a health care provider once (no return visits) and each clinician diagnoses a given case of IA … anthrax. Ann NY Acad Sci. 1980;353:83-93. 4. Penn CC, Klotz SA. Anthrax pneumonia Sem Resp Med 1997;12:28-30. … -
Identifying Categories of Over-the-Counter Products with Superior Outbreak Detection Performance
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A significant research topic in biosurveillance is how to group individual events—such as single emergency department (ED) visits and sales of over-thecounter healthcare (OTC) products—into counts of “similar” events. For OTC products, the goal is… read more… events—such as single emergency department (ED) visits and sales of over-thecounter healthcare (OTC) … clusters OTC products based on how well they ‘explain’ ED visits for influenzalike illness (ILI) can find categories … events—such as single emer- gency department (ED) visits and sales of over-the- counter healthcare (OTC) …