[PDF] Top 20 Methods used in the spatial analysis of tuberculosis epidemiology: a systematic review

... a systematic literature search of spatial studies of TB published in English using Medline, Embase, PsycInfo, Scopus and Web of Science databases with no date restriction from inception to 15 February ... See full document

... typing methods demonstrated a wide range of discrimination ...We used HGDI index to assess the discriminatory power of molecular typing ...The analysis of HGDI values for each typing method in this ... See full document

... catching the disease (50). Some risk factors are as follows: being imprisoned, drug abuse, alcohol consumption, homelessness (51), infection with HIV (15), and immigration (52). Immigrants play a significant role in TB ... See full document

... situational analysis and mapping of routine and current best practices, unpublished: Data presented is an average of the combined incidence of active TB disease in health care workers from best practice and ... See full document

... Molecular epidemiology studies using molecular typing methods can evaluate transmission patterns and risk factors, identify transmitted cases of MDR-TB, and determine transmission patterns within human ... See full document

... was used to pool the estimations; and standard methods recommended for meta-analyses of prevalence were ...were used to examine the heterogeneity of ... See full document

... sample size and multicollinearity of the data, the PLS algorithm was chosen to set up SEM, named as PLS-PM [21]. It is a component-based estimation method, which is an iterative algorithm that separately analyzes the ... See full document

... the review A strength of this review lies in the search strategies ...this review was therefore well-suited to the exhaustive identification of relevant ...commonly used in ...examine ... See full document

... Systematic review Search of articles in Pubmed and Web of Science published in English, using MeSH terms in title, abstract and keywords Hand search: full text search on the website of journals where at ... See full document

... the review A strength of this review lies in the search strategies ...this review was therefore well-suited to the exhaustive identification of relevant ...commonly used in ...examine ... See full document

... The review showed that MDR-TB is continued to become a serious public health problem in ...this review was comparable with previous stud- ies, yet it is a ... See full document

... subgroup analysis was performed, the heterogeneity of both the symptomatic and mixed studies was still extremely high (Table 3), indicating that patient populations alone did not contribute much to the overall ... See full document

... Nonetheless, differences in case definitions and cut-off values, reference population size, the screening methods used and incomplete reporting may all have an influence on the number of identified and ... See full document

... tion (25). Various items support the preventive effect on dry socket of chlorhe�idine. In the meta-analysis by Caso et al. (26) they conclude that rinsing with chlo- rhe�idine on the day of the e�traction and in ... See full document

... symptoms, methods of diag- nosing malaria, malaria endemicity and treatment) (2) quality of measures that could affect postpartum sus- ceptibility (type of study, use of IPTp or chemoprophy- laxis, samples taken ... See full document

... statistical methods used in this ...was used to identify changes in patient characteristics over ...The spatial analyses were based on point locations provided by residential, or in some ... See full document

... geospatial methods for clustering/cluster detection in unintentional injury studies when compared to broader public health research, suggesting that unintentional in- juries might be different in terms of their ... See full document

... Study limitations and future directions This study has some limitations. Firstly, maximum col- lection of data was based on the continuous availability of data, but in some cases the data were from one-time community- or ... See full document

... this review, no clear description of what micro-epidemiology should entail was ...micro-epidemiological analysis to more efficient identification and targeting of malaria hotspots, this review ... See full document

... A systematic review and meta-analysis was conducted as per the PRISMA ...Further systematic reference screening of published reviews and retrieved studies were also conducted to identify ... See full document