Sentence examples for misclassification of outbreaks from inspiring English sources
Use of genotype profiles is a first step toward recognizing outbreaks resulting from contamination early in the food chain because it allows estimation of the incidence in surveillance data retrospectively and objectively minimizes misclassification of outbreaks.
Furthermore, by incorporating molecular typing data with epidemiological data, CDI clusters can be further examined to better identify potential outbreaks, prevent the misclassification of cases as outbreak or non-outbreak, and elucidate transmission events.
In the FBVE database, outbreaks that occur on ships are reported in the category aircraft/ship/train/bus; analysis of cruise ship outbreaks used this category, which led to some misclassification of cruise ship outbreaks.
Our case definition was based on farmer reports of outbreaks of disease with clinical signs suggestive of, but not pathognomonic to ASF, which could imply a risk for misclassification.
Reduce the recurrence of outbreaks.
Minimize the duration and severity of outbreaks.
This demonstrates that for the identification of transmission events and the determination of cases as outbreak or non-outbreak, relying on antibiogram data may result in inaccurate findings and the misclassification of cases as MRSA strains that differ genotypically may display identical antimicrobial susceptibility profiles.
On the other hand, foodborne outbreak investigations may be increasingly less vulnerable to misclassification of cases and controls because of the increased availability of standardized molecular subtyping in public health laboratories (Swaminathan et al., 2001).
An issue that Mishel calls "low-hanging fruit" is the misclassification of employees.
This Tuesday, the Department of Labor announced an agreement with New Hampshire to reduce misclassification of employees in that state.
"This investigation involves the misclassification of 203 reports out of the more than one and a half million reports that are filed each year," he said.
