Analytics for Investigation of Disease Outbreaks: Web-Based Analytics Facilitating Situational Awareness in Unfolding Disease Outbreaks.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Information from historical infectious disease outbreaks provides real-world data about outbreaks and their impacts on affected populations. These data can be used to develop a picture of an unfolding outbreak in its early stages, when incoming information is sparse and isolated, to identify effective control measures and guide their implementation.

Objective

This study aimed to develop a publicly accessible Web-based visual analytic called Analytics for the Investigation of Disease Outbreaks (AIDO) that uses historical disease outbreak information for decision support and situational awareness of an unfolding outbreak.

Methods

We developed an algorithm to allow the matching of unfolding outbreak data to a representative library of historical outbreaks. Thi

SUBMITTER: Velappan N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6409513 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature