Abstract：
:Geographic disease surveillance methods identify regions that have higher disease rates than expected. These approaches are generally applied to incident or prevalent cases of disease. In some contexts, disease-related events rather than individuals are the appropriate units of analysis for geographic surveillance. We propose a compound Poisson approach that detects event clusters by testing individual areas that may be combined with their nearest neighbors. The method is applicable to situations where the population sizes are diverse and the population distribution by important strata may differ by area. For example, a geographical region might have sparse population in the northern areas, and other areas which are predominantly retirement communities. The approach requires a coarse geographical relationship and administrative data for the numbers of population, cases, and events in each area. Pediatric self-inflicted injuries requiring presentation to Alberta emergency departments provide an illustration.
journal_name
Biometricsjournal_title
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Rosychuk RJ,Huston C,Prasad NGdoi
10.1111/j.1541-0420.2005.00503.xsubject
Has Abstractpub_date
2006-06-01 00:00:00pages
465-70issue
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0006-341Xissn
1541-0420pii
BIOM503journal_volume
62pub_type
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