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Methodology for prediction of outbreaks of diseases of military importance
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Traditional public health practice has relied on public health surveillance of disease to detect outbreaks in an effort to mitigate their effects. Often the earlier an outbreak is detected, the greater the mitigation of its effects. The logical… read more -
Non-parametric intensity bounds for the visualization of disease clusters
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Consider the most likely disease cluster produced by any given method, like SaTScan, for the detection and inference of spatial clusters in a map divided into areas; if this cluster is found to be statistically significant, what could be… read more -
Optimal sequential management decisions for influenza outbreaks
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Management policies for influenza outbreaks balance the expected morbidity and mortality costs versus the cost of intervention policies under outbreak parameter uncertainty. Previous approaches have not updated parameter estimates as data arrives… read more -
Impact of alternate diagnoses on the accuracy of influenza-like illness case definition used for H1N1 screening in the emergency department
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In June 2009, the CDC defined a confirmed case of H1N1 as a person with an ILI and laboratory confirmed novel influenza A H1N1 virus infection. ILI is defined by the CDC as fever and cough and/or sore throat, in the absence of a known cause… read more -
Comparison of Exposure to Risk Factors for Giardiasis Among Endemic and Travel Cases
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Increasing immigration to Canada coupled with the increasing number of Canadians travelling domestically and abroad is expected to significantly impact the burden of illness due to enteropathogens, including Giardia, in Canada . When estimating… read more -
Impact of including physician’s prescribing directions on calculations of medication possession ratios
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Medication adherence studies typically use pharmacy-dispensing data to infer drug exposures. These studies often require calculations reflecting the intensity and duration of drug exposure. The typical approach to estimating duration of drug… read more -
Incorporating seasonality and other long-term trends improves surveillance for acute respiratory infections
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As the electronic medical record (EMR) market matures, long-term time series of EMR-based surveillance data are becoming available. In this work, we hypothesized that statistical aberrancy-detection methods that incorporate seasonality and other… read more -
Application of biosurveillance methodology to the 2010 Asian foot-and-mouth disease outbreaks
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Argus is an event-based, multi-lingual, biosurveillance system, which captures and analyzes information from publicly available internet media. Argus produces reports that summarize and contextualize direct, indirect, and… read more