Article
Severity index for a national foodborne outbreak surveillance system
2022-06-13
Abstract excerpt
Few studies have developed data-driven indices to describe and compare disease outbreak severity with respect to health burdens. We created a severity index using the National Outbreak Reporting System (NORS) database from 01 January 2009 through 31 December 2019. We identified 11 metrics related to case morbidity/mortality, outbreak duration, and their ratios, normalized natural log-transformed metric values, and...
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- Literature Corpus work
- afc1d167-fa84-5f7d-9573-124978dadf6e
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-1720769/v1
