Humans as animal sentinels for forecasting asthma events: helping health services become more responsive.

The concept of forecasting asthma using humans as animal sentinels is uncommon. This study explores the plausibility of predicting future asthma daily admissions using retrospective data in London (2005-2006). Negative binomial regressions were used in modeling; allowing the non-contiguous autoregre...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ireneous N Soyiri, Daniel D Reidpath
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3485264?pdf=render