Comments on 'a critical look at prospective surveillance using a scan statistic' by T. Correa, M. Costa, and R. Assunção.

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Monitoring European data with prospective space-time scan statistics: predicting and evaluating emerging clusters of COVID-19 in European countries.BMC public health · 2022
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2. Exploring spatiotemporal patterns of COVID-19 infection in Nagasaki Prefecture in Japan using prospective space-time scan statistics from April 2020 to April 2022.Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique · 2022
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3. Development and Evaluation of Statewide Prospective Spatiotemporal Legionellosis Cluster Surveillance, New Jersey, USA.Emerging infectious diseases · 2022
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4. A syndromic surveillance tool to detect anomalous clusters of COVID-19 symptoms in the United States.Scientific reports · 2021
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5. Detecting space-time clusters of COVID-19 in Brazil: mortality, inequality, socioeconomic vulnerability, and the relative risk of the disease in Brazilian municipalities.Journal of geographical systems · 2021
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6. Space-Time Patterns, Change, and Propagation of COVID-19 Risk Relative to the Intervention Scenarios in Bangladesh.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020
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7. Daily surveillance of COVID-19 using the prospective space-time scan statistic in the United States.Spatial and spatio-temporal epidemiology · 2020
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8. Rapid surveillance of COVID-19 in the United States using a prospective space-time scan statistic: Detecting and evaluating emerging clusters.Applied geography (Sevenoaks, England) · 2020
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9. Simulation of Legionnaires' disease prospective spatiotemporal cluster detection, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA.Epidemiology and infection · 2018
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10. Evaluating and implementing temporal, spatial, and spatio-temporal methods for outbreak detection in a local syndromic surveillance system.PloS one · 2017
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Corrections and comments

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Abstract

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