Short-term projections for variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease onsets. Export

@article{citeulike:4815975, abstract = {Projections of both the short- and long-term course of the variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) epidemic in Great Britain have demonstrated great uncertainty due to the lack of knowledge of key aspects of the biology and epidemiology of this new disease. Such projections are sensitive to assumptions made regarding the pattern of exposure to BSE-infected animals, the effectiveness of control measures introduced in 1989 and 1996 in reducing this exposure, the functional form of the incubation period distribution and patterns of age-dependent susceptibility/exposure. This paper provides short-term projections for vCJD onsets using the time- and age-distributed onset data to the end of 2000, with results that are directly comparable to the other papers in this issue. These results demonstrate the continued uncertainty in the future scale of this disease.}, author = {Ghani, A. C. and Ferguson, N. M. and Donnelly, C. A. and Anderson, R. M.}, citeulike-article-id = {4815975}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12828241}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=12828241}, issn = {0962-2802}, journal = {Statistical methods in medical research}, month = {June}, number = {3}, pages = {191--201}, posted-at = {2009-06-11 20:25:28}, priority = {2}, title = {Short-term projections for variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease onsets.}, url = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12828241}, volume = {12}, year = {2003} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:4815975 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4815975 N2 - Projections of both the short- and long-term course of the variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) epidemic in Great Britain have demonstrated great uncertainty due to the lack of knowledge of key aspects of the biology and epidemiology of this new disease. Such projections are sensitive to assumptions made regarding the pattern of exposure to BSE-infected animals, the effectiveness of control measures introduced in 1989 and 1996 in reducing this exposure, the functional form of the incubation period distribution and patterns of age-dependent susceptibility/exposure. This paper provides short-term projections for vCJD onsets using the time- and age-distributed onset data to the end of 2000, with results that are directly comparable to the other papers in this issue. These results demonstrate the continued uncertainty in the future scale of this disease. IS - 3 JF - Statistical methods in medical research SN - 0962-2802 EP - 201 TI - Short-term projections for variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease onsets. VL - 12 SP - 191 AU - Ghani, AC AU - Ferguson, NM AU - Donnelly, CA AU - Anderson, RM PY - 2003/06// UR - http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12828241 ER -