Daily Reportable Disease Spatiotemporal Cluster Detection, New York City, New York, USA, 2014-2015.

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Emerg Infect Dis. 2016 10;22(10):1808-12

Authors: Greene SK, Peterson ER, Kapell D, Fine AD, Kulldorff M

Abstract
Each day, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene uses the free SaTScan software to apply prospective space-time permutation scan statistics to strengthen early outbreak detection for 35 reportable diseases. This method prompted early detection of outbreaks of community-acquired legionellosis and shigellosis.

PMID: 27648777 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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