Correcting for day of the week and public holiday effects: improving a national daily syndromic surveillance service for detecting public health threats

• Main Authors: Elizabeth Buckingham-Jeffery (Author), Roger Morbey (Author), Thomas House (Author), Alex J. Elliot (Author), Sally Harcourt (Author), Gillian E. Smith (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2017-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background As service provision and patient behaviour varies by day, healthcare data used for public health surveillance can exhibit large day of the week effects. These regular effects are further complicated by the impact of public holidays. Real-time syndromic surveillance requires the d...