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Preliminary Analysis of SaTScan's Effectiveness to Detect Known Disease Outbreaks Using Emergency Department Syndromic Data in Los Angeles County
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Los Angeles County Department of Health Services is currently testing SaTScan’s space-time permutation model to assist in identifying aberrant illness activity in the community and determine it’s ability to detect … read more… gastro-intestinal, 2,082 rash, 958 neurological, and 26,042 respiratory cases. The retrospective option found 59 … Clusters that did not correspond to known outbreaks may have been due to random clusters, seasonal increases, or … missing data. Increasing hospital coverage in the future may increase SaTScan‘s ability to detect disease clusters …