Further investigations, perhaps using simulated data, are needed to determine which types of data are more suitable for the syndromic surveillance of specific types of diseases.
There must be good a priori reason to select specific types of diseases that are sufficiently homogenous to support the assumption of more or less uniform etiology.
When focusing on specific types of diseases, represented by smaller numbers of OTUs for three categories (URI, GAS and HEM), bootstrap support impacted the results.
High frequency oscillatory ventilation (HFO), a special mode of mechanical ventilation applied only to specific types of diseases in neonates [ 12], generally produces less lung injury and granulocyte infiltration into alveolar spaces in vivo, compared with conventional mechanical ventilation (CMV) [ 8, 9, 13].
Each type of neoplasm owns specific type of disease with morphological, molecular, and clinical variations [21].
If a specific type of disease was reported in any portion of the survey, the respondent was considered to have reported the disease.
Because the focus of interest was a specific type of disease, the MeSH terms "HF," "heart diseases," and "stroke" and the keywords "myocardial infarct*" (truncated) and "cardiac disease" were used.
Participants reporting diseases in each category were asked about the specific type of disease (e.g., type 1 or type 2 diabetes), age at diagnosis and, for some diseases, whether they were currently taking prescription medication or had been hospitalized for the disease.
Given the fact that drug interventions are rare in degenerative diseases and limited to only specific type of diseases and symptoms [ 10], physiotherapy is a major cornerstone in current therapy of ataxic gait.
