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Respiratory and circulatory deaths attributable to influenza A & B
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Assigning causes of deaths to seasonal infectious diseases is difficult in part due to laboratory testing prior to death being uncommon. Since influenza (and other common respiratory pathogens) are therefore notoriously underreported as a (… read more… to seasonal infectious diseases is difficult in part due to laboratory testing prior to death being uncommon. … to seasonal infectious diseases is difficult in part due to laboratory testing prior to death being uncommon. … -
Estimating the number of deaths attributable to nine common infectious pathogens adjusted for seasonality and temperature
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Accurately assigning causes or contributing causes to deaths remains a universal challenge, especially in the elderly with underlying disease. Cause of death statistics commonly record the underlying cause of death, and influenza… read more… Results With increasing age, the number of pathogens (all viruses) significantly associated with mortality also … later. Our most conservative models attributed 6.9% of all deaths in those aged 85 years and older to multiple … microorganisms in infants. Epidemiol Infect 2007;135:17–26. Estimating number of deaths Emerging Health Threats … -
Syndromic Surveillance for Localized Outbreaks of Lower-Respiratory Infections: Does it Work?
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To evaluate whether syndromic surveillance can detect localized outbreaks of lower-respiratory infections (LRI's) with limited numbers of alarms in time.… Doornbos M.Sc., Nico J. D. Nagelkerke Ph.D., Wim van de Hoek, Hans van Vliet M.D., Marion P.G. Koopmans D.V.M. … OBJECTIVE To evaluate whether syndromic surveillance can de- tect localized outbreaks of lower-respiratory infec- … diagnoses by date of hospi- talization). We included all hospitalizations with any kind of lower-respiratory … -
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 …