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Emerging Infectious Diseases
Studies from J.I. Tokars et al in the area of emerging infectious diseases described
May 19th, 2009
"BioSense is a US national system that uses data from health information systems for automated disease surveillance. We studied 4 time-series algorithm modifications designed to improve sensitivity for detecting artificially added data," scientists writing in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases report. "To test these modified algorithms, we used reports of daily syndrome visits from 308 Department of Defense (DoD) facilities and 340 hospital emergency departments (EDs). At a constant alert rate of 1%, sensitivity was improved for both datasets by using a minimum standard deviation (SD) of 1.0, a 14-28 day baseline duration for calculating mean and SD, and an...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2009-05-19)
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