What is it about?
A count of deaths is used to detect disease outbreaks, however, current methods do not detect hidden patterns suggesting the involvement of more subtle infectious outbreaks
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Why is it important?
It is important to analyse the death data in a way that reveals all types of infectious outbreaks.
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This is part of a longer series investigating novel outbreaks of previously unidentified infectious agents, see http://www.hcaf.biz/2010/Publications_Full.pdf
Dr Rodney P Jones
Healthcare Analysis & Forecasting
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This page is a summary of: A fatal flaw in mortality based disease surveillance, British Journal of Healthcare Management, March 2016, Mark Allen Group,
DOI: 10.12968/bjhc.2016.22.3.143.
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