There have been at least 635 probable, suspected, or confirmed cases of the disease reported in the region to date.
However, the route of contamination remains indefinable, although probable suspects exist: water, soil, animal waste, and insects [4].
The relation between adverse events and treatment was also given as probable, suspected, unlikely or not related to treatment.
Therefore, we also provided the option to reviewers to require >3 confirmed, probable, suspected, or pending cases to qualify as a signal at this geographic resolution.
Cases classified as confirmed, probable, suspected, or pending were analyzed, but some cases with an initial pending status were ultimately reclassified after investigation as "not a case".
Data on confirmed, probable, suspected, or pending cases (Table 1) were analyzed at 3 geographic resolutions: citywide, borough (5 boroughs), and United Hospital Fund (UHF) neighborhood (42 neighborhoods).
We maintained the requirement of the presence of at least 3 confirmed, probable, suspected, or pending cases to be considered a signal to prevent alerts driven by cases classified as "not a case".
When a possible case-patient is identified in a healthcare facility within Beijing, a panel of experts at the facility reviews clinical information to classify the illness as probable, suspected, or under observation.
This similarity of ERP profiles across the uncooperative and innocent phases suggests that when probes and irrelevants are equally probable, suspects can voluntarily suppress retrieval and modulate neural responses to crime probes, disguising stored knowledge so that they appear innocent.
To confirm MI identified from hospitalisation data, we used the presence or absence of chest pain, cardiac enzyme test results and electrocardiograms to classify cases as definite, probable, suspected or not acute MI following the criteria developed by the American Heart Association Council on Epidemiology (Gillum et al, 1984).
