What is it about?
A prolonged period of excess deaths during 2012 in the UK exposed deficiencies in the official EuroMOMO method for detecting excess mortality.
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Why is it important?
While mortality monitoring is vitally important to detect the presence of pathogens of public health importance it is necessary to continuously question if the current methods are missing the obvious.
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Hidden assumptions are the bane of every model. See a wider series of studies at http://www.hcaf.biz/2010/Publications_Full.pdf
Dr Rodney P Jones
Healthcare Analysis & Forecasting
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This page is a summary of: Analysing excess winter mortality: 2012–13, British Journal of Healthcare Management, December 2013, Mark Allen Group,
DOI: 10.12968/bjhc.2013.19.12.601.
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