Setting thresholds to determine COVID-19 activity levels using the mean standard deviation (MSD) method, England, 2022-2024.

IF 9.9 2区医学 Q1 INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Eurosurveillance Pub Date : 2024-11-01 DOI:10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2024.29.45.2400696

Mary A Sinnathamby, Tania Bourouphael, Jacob Boateng, Magali Collonnaz, Catherine Quinot, Nurin Abdul Aziz, Suzanne Elgohari, Rebecca E Green, Gavin Dabrera, Jamie Lopez-Bernal, Alex Allen

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Abstract

We developed a new activity level setting threshold method, the mean standard deviation (MSD) method to quantify COVID-19 activity levels. This has been validated against the moving epidemic method (MEM), which has been used for influenza for many years, and we observed very similar results. The MSD method can prove to be a tool to use for respiratory viruses with limited historical data or seasonality to quantify activity levels when other respiratory viruses are also circulating.

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使用平均标准偏差 (MSD) 法设定阈值以确定 COVID-19 活动水平，英格兰，2022-2024 年。

我们开发了一种新的活动水平设定阈值方法，即平均标准偏差 (MSD) 法，用于量化 COVID-19 的活动水平。该方法已与多年来用于流感的移动流行病学方法（MEM）进行了验证，我们观察到的结果非常相似。事实证明，当其他呼吸道病毒也在流行时，MSD 方法可用于历史数据有限或季节性较强的呼吸道病毒，以量化其活动水平。

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Eurosurveillance INFECTIOUS DISEASES-

CiteScore

32.70

自引率

2.10%

发文量

430

审稿时长

3-8 weeks

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