Published on in Vol 8, No 1 (2016):

Interest of Prospective Spatio-Temporal Analysis from ED Data to Detect Unusual Health Events

Interest of Prospective Spatio-Temporal Analysis from ED Data to Detect Unusual Health Events

Interest of Prospective Spatio-Temporal Analysis from ED Data to Detect Unusual Health Events

Authors of this article:

Pascal Vilain ;   Sébastien Cossin ;   Laurent Filleul
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In Reunion Island, a prospective computer-automated space-time analysis hab been implemented in order to launch daily analyses of ED visits. This tool allowed to the early detection of several infectious diseases outbreak such as a gastroenteritis cluster or a local outbreak of conjunctivitis that spread throughout the island.