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Correcting for day of the week and public holiday effects: improving a national daily syndromic surveillance service for detecting public health threats

BACKGROUND: As service provision and patient behaviour varies by day, healthcare data used for public health surveillance can exhibit large day of the week effects. These regular effects are further complicated by the impact of public holidays. Real-time syndromic surveillance requires the daily ana...

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Autores principales: Buckingham-Jeffery, Elizabeth, Morbey, Roger, House, Thomas, Elliot, Alex J., Harcourt, Sally, Smith, Gillian E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5438549/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28525991
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-017-4372-y