[R-sig-teaching] source for rhodococcus nosocomial outbreak data

Christopher W. Ryan cry@n @ending from bingh@mton@edu
Fri Jul 20 19:09:12 CEST 2018


Thanks. I'm looking for raw anonymous data, e.g. a csv file of a line
listing.

--Chris

Albyn Jones wrote:
> Google points me to
> 
> New England Journal of Medicine
> <https://www.researchgate.net/journal/0028-4793_New_England_Journal_of_Medicine>
> 324(2):104-9 · February 1991.
> 
> and
> 
> https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199101103240206
> 
> On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 8:13 AM, Christopher W. Ryan
> <cryan using binghamton.edu <mailto:cryan using binghamton.edu>> wrote:
> 
>     Many moons ago, the US CDC came out with DoEpi, which was computer-based
>     instruction in outbreak investigation, using the CDC's Epi Info
>     software.
> 
>     I recall two instructionally useful cases in DoEpi:  the Oswego church
>     supper outbreak (a classic!) and a nosocomial outbreak of
>     post-sternotomy sternal osteomyelitis with Rhodococcus.
> 
>     I'd like to use these cases in an intro epidemiology class in a new MPH
>     program, but with R.  I no longer have my old DoEpi files. I found the
>     Oswego church supper data in the R epitools package. Does anyone know if
>     the rhodococcus dataset is available somewhere?
> 
>     Thanks.
> 
>     --Chris Ryan
>     SUNY Upstate Medical University
>     and
>     Binghamton University
> 
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