TY - JOUR AU - Wang, Ruiping AU - Jiang, Yonggen AU - Michael, Engelgau AU - Zhao, Genming PY - 2017 DA - 2017/06/12 TI - How to select a proper early warning threshold to detect infectious disease outbreaks based on the China infectious disease automated alert and response system (CIDARS) JO - BMC Public Health SP - 570 VL - 17 IS - 1 AB - China Centre for Diseases Control and Prevention (CDC) developed the China Infectious Disease Automated Alert and Response System (CIDARS) in 2005. The CIDARS was used to strengthen infectious disease surveillance and aid in the early warning of outbreak. The CIDARS has been integrated into the routine outbreak monitoring efforts of the CDC at all levels in China. Early warning threshold is crucial for outbreak detection in the CIDARS, but CDCs at all level are currently using thresholds recommended by the China CDC, and these recommended thresholds have recognized limitations. Our study therefore seeks to explore an operational method to select the proper early warning threshold according to the epidemic features of local infectious diseases. SN - 1471-2458 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-017-4488-0 DO - 10.1186/s12889-017-4488-0 ID - Wang2017 ER -