[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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