EHRs not only help to identify a novel disease outbreak, but they do so with high geographic resolution [26].
The majority (83%) of excluded records were geographically near to known valid areas and are likely to be good observations with poor geographic resolution.
Exclusions were minimal, comprising fewer than 3% of the total observations, primarily being records from near coastlines with poor geographic resolution (fig 3 shows an example of poor geographic resolution).
While Strasburg and Rieseberg [ 66] found the algorithms employed by IMa2 are robust to violations of the assumption of panmixia, future studies with finer geographic resolution should seek to validate our current findings.
Refining the scale of global biodiversity assessments (both at terrestrial and freshwater realms) and translating these into conservation priorities on the ground remains a major challenge to biodiversity science [4], [5], and depends directly on species occurrence data with fine taxonomic and geographic resolution [2], [6], [7].
Thus, it is important to have access to datasets that are at a high geographic resolution with pertinent GP workload information.
This result indicates the promising possibility for identifying outbreak locations with a more detailed geographic resolution, which is a critical area in the future development of effective outbreak detection.
As described above, a significant body of literature exists comparing varying levels of geographic resolution with different exposure potential outcomes (Glickman 2004; Lopez 2002; Maantay 2002; Sheppard et al. 1999).
Of the HLMoriginal signals during this period, 47 (35%) would have been at the neighborhood geographic resolution with fewer cases than the reviewers' threshold for action; these signals were omitted from further evaluation.
Most of this previous work primarily utilized allozyme markers at the finest scales of geographic resolution with the result that patterns of DNA sequence variation have not yet been studied at the geographic scale necessary to yield insights into the longer-term historical processes of extinction and recolonization.
