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Article Dans Une Revue Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses Année : 2018

Mapping influenza activity in emergency departments in France using Bayesian model-based geostatistics

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Background Maps of influenza activity are important tools to monitor influenza epidemics and inform policymakers. In France, the availability of a high-quality data set from the Oscour® surveillance network, covering 92% of hospital emergency department (ED) visits, offers new opportunities for disease mapping. Traditional geostatistical mapping methods such as Kriging ignore underlying population sizes, are not suited to non-Gaussian data and do not account for uncertainty in parameter estimates. Objective Our objective was to create reliable weekly interpolated maps of influenza activity in the ED setting, to inform Santé publique France (the French national public health agency) and local healthcare authorities. Methods We used Oscour® data of ED visits covering the 2016-2017 influenza season. We developed a Bayesian model-based geostatistical approach, a class of generalized linear mixed models, with a multivariate normal random field as a spatially autocorrelated random effect. Using R-INLA, we developed an algorithm to create maps of the proportion of influenza-coded cases among all coded visits. We compared our results with maps obtained by Kriging. Results Over the study period, 45 565 (0.82%) visits were coded as influenza cases. Maps resulting from the model are presented for each week, displaying the posterior mean of the influenza proportion and its associated uncertainty. Our model performed better than Kriging. Conclusions Our model allows producing smoothed maps where the random noise has been properly removed to reveal the spatial risk surface. The algorithm was incorporated into the national surveillance system to produce maps in real time and could be applied to other diseases.
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pasteur-03430097 , version 1 (16-11-2021)

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Juliette Paireau, Camille Pelat, Céline Caserio-Schönemann, Isabelle Pontais, Yann Le Strat, et al.. Mapping influenza activity in emergency departments in France using Bayesian model-based geostatistics. Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses, 2018, 12 (6), pp.772-779. ⟨10.1111/irv.12599⟩. ⟨pasteur-03430097⟩
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