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Student Rotation in a Veterinary Teaching Hospital as a Potential Surveillance Confounder
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Identifying potential biases and confounders that may affect data quality is an important consideration when evaluating surveillance systems. Having the benefit of predictable temporal trends is a key requirement to improve upon… read more… Further Information: Loren Shaffer, loren.shaffer@hmsinc.com www.hmsinc.com Advances in Disease Surveillance 2007;4:264 … -
Evaluation of Microbiology Orders from a Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory as a Potential Data Source for Early Outbreak Detection
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Animals continue to be recognized as a potential source of surveillance data for detecting emerging infectious diseases, bioterrorism preparedness, pandemic influenza preparedness, and detection of other zoonotic diseases. Detection of disease… read more… and other data populate data repositories at the IDEXX cor- porate office at the time of record creation. Other … (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, http://www.cdc.gov/epi- info/). We determined the frequency of … seasonal change (34), Ŷt = α + βtt + βs sin(2πt/52) + βc cos(2π t/52), [2] where a is the intercept value, βt is the …