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Early Detection of Nosocomial Outbreaks Caused by Rare Pathogens: A Case Study Employing Score Prediction Interval

Hiroshi Nishiura

Osong Public Health Res Perspect. 2012;3(3):121-127. Published online June 30, 2012

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Objectives Nosocomial outbreaks involve only a small number of cases and limited baseline data. The present study proposes a method to detect the nosocomial outbreaks caused by rare pathogens, exploiting score prediction interval of a Poisson distribution. Methods The proposed method was applied to three empirical datasets of nosocomial outbreaks in Japan: outbreaks of (1) multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (n = 46) from 2009...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.phrp.2012.07.010

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