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Syndromic Surveillance with Death Data: a Pilot Study in the Netherlands
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Crude mortality could be valuable for infectious disease surveillance if available in a complete and timely fashion. Such data can be of used for detecting, and tracking the impact of unusual health events (e.g. pandemic… read more… Crude mortality could be valuable for infectious dis- ease surveillance if available in a complete and timely … from Statistics Netherlands – which registers all deaths in the Netherlands (population 16 million). Death … -
Understanding the Dynamics of Gastro-Intestinal Syndrome: General Practioner and Hospital Data vs Laboratory Surveillance
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Objective Understanding the baseline dynamics of syndrome counts is essential for use in prospective syndromic surveillance. Therefore we studied to what extent the known seasonal dynamics of gastro-intestinal (GI… read more… values (up to 5 weeks backwards and forwards in time) of all GI pathogens as explanatory variables. For multivariate … was used, building each increment in the model by adding all possible lags of all pathogens and selecting the … summer/autumn) and hospital diagnoses (peaks in winter). Due to very high colinearity between several of the GI …