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Volume 21, Number 2—February 2015
Research

Refining Historical Limits Method to Improve Disease Cluster Detection, New York City, New York, USA

Alison Levin-Rector1Comments to Author , Elisha L. Wilson2, Annie D. Fine, and Sharon K. Greene
Author affiliations: New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Queens, New York, USA

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Figure 2

Confirmatory proportion of pending cases for diseases with any pending cases, New York City, New York, USA, July–December 2012. The confirmatory proportion was defined as the proportion of initially pending cases that were reclassified to confirmed, probable, or suspected (rather than to “not a case”). Diseases that are not routinely investigated, e.g., campylobacteriosis, enter the database with confirmed (not pending) case status and are not shown.

Figure 2. Confirmatory proportion of pending cases for diseases with any pending cases, New York City, New York, USA, July–December 2012. The confirmatory proportion was defined as the proportion of initially pending cases that were reclassified to confirmed, probable, or suspected (rather than to “not a case”). Diseases that are not routinely investigated, e.g., campylobacteriosis, enter the database with confirmed (not pending) case status and are not shown.

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1Current affiliation: RTI International, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA.

2Current affiliation: Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Denver, Colorado, USA.

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