A New Method for Estimating the Incidence of Infectious Diseases.
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DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwab014
Abstract: Ambitious World Health Organization targets for disease elimination require monitoring of epidemics using routine health data in settings of decreasing and low incidence. We evaluated two methods commonly applied to routine testing results to estimate… read more here.
Keywords: incidence; estimating incidence; poisson binomial; new method ... See more keywords
The effect of the look-back period for estimating incidence using administrative data
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DOI: 10.1186/s12913-020-5016-y
Abstract: Background The look-back period is needed to define baseline population for estimating incidence. However, short look-back period is known to overestimate incidence of diseases misclassifying prevalent cases to incident cases. The purpose of this study… read more here.
Keywords: look back; back period; estimating incidence;