- Zoom 4 Active Surveillance Was Implemented To Identify Patients Hospitalized With Viral Encephalitis And Meningitis C 1 (58.31 KiB) Viewed 130 times
Zoom 4. "Active surveillance was implemented to identify patients hospitalized with viral encephalitis and meningitis. Cerebrospinal fluid, serum, and tissue specimens from patients with suspected cases 1111 underwent serologic and viral testing for evidence of arbovita) infection." Why was "active surveillance" necessary? (2pts) 5. They found a total of 59 patients. Fill the attack rate, RR by characteristic (6pts) Addressed in ql on Exercise 3 Prep Work Characteristic #cases{%) NYC population attack rate" RR by per million pop. characteristic Agelyr) 0-191 2 (3) 2,324,081 0.9 1.0 20-29 1 (2) 1,553,981 30-39 3 (5) 1,549,111 40-49 1(2) 1,177,190 50-59 9 (15) 867,331 50-69 13 (22) 814,838 70-79 18 (31) 534,785 180 12 (20) 281,054 Alle category lyr) 50 52 (88) 2,498,008 7 (12) 6,604,363 1.0 Sex Male 31 (53) 4,289,988 Female: 28 (47) 4,812,383 1.0 Race White 41 (69) 5,983,901 Nonwhite 9 (15) 3,118,470 10 Unknown 9 (15) n/a n/a Borough or county of residence New York City Brooklyn (Kings) 3 (5) 2,300,664 1.0 Bronx 9 (15) 1,203,789 Manhattan 1 (2) 1,487,536 Queens 32 (54) 1,951,599 Staten Island 0 379,999 New York State just outside the city) 14 2,162,214 we will ignore this risk group for this exercise Populations are from the 1990s. Cansu denote condence interval. This group served as the reference population STS 50: