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Reporting incidence from a surveillance system with an operational case definition of unknown predictive value positive

When reporting incidence rate estimates for relatively rare health conditions, associated case counts are often assumed to follow a Poisson distribution. Case counts obtained from large-scale electronic surveillance systems are often inflated by the presence of false positives, however, and adjusted...

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Autor principal: Kegler, Scott R
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2005
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1215500/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16033652
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-5573-2-7