Evaluating Hospital-Based Surveillance for Outbreak Detection in Bangladesh: Analysis of Healthcare Utilization Data

Birgit Nikolay (1, 2) , Henrik Salje (1, 2, 3) , Katharine Sturm-Ramirez (4, 5) , Eduardo Azziz-Baumgartner (4) , Nusrat Homaira (5, 6) , Makhdum Ahmed (7, 8) , A. Danielle Iuliano (4) , Repon Paul (5, 6) , Mahmudur Rahman (9) , M. Jahangir Hossain (10) , Stephen Luby (11) , Simon Cauchemez (1, 2) , Emily Gurley (5)

1 Modélisation mathématique des maladies infectieuses
2 C3BI - Centre de Bioinformatique, Biostatistique et Biologie Intégrative
3 Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health [Baltimore]
4 CDC - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [Atlanta]
5 ICDDR,B - International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh
6 UNSW - University of New South Wales [Sydney]
7 UTHealth - The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
8 The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center [Houston]
9 Institute of Epidemiology
10 MRC - Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia
11 Stanford University

The International Health Regulations outline core requirements to ensure the detection of public health threats of international concern. Assessing the capacity of surveillance systems to detect these threats is crucial for evaluating a country's ability to meet these requirements.

Domains: Mathematics [math]; Statistics [math.ST]

Birgit Nikolay, Henrik Salje, Katharine Sturm-Ramirez, Eduardo Azziz-Baumgartner, Nusrat Homaira, et al.. Evaluating Hospital-Based Surveillance for Outbreak Detection in Bangladesh: Analysis of Healthcare Utilization Data. PLoS Medicine, 2017, 14 (1), pp.e1002218. ⟨10.1371/journal.pmed.1002218⟩. ⟨pasteur-03429337⟩