EDITORIAL: INFECTIOUS DISEASE MODELLING

Infectious Disease Modelling

This is an author-created preprint of a book chapter to appear in the Handbook on Spatial Epidemiology edited by Andrew Lawson, Sudipto Banerjee, Robert Haining and Lola Ugarte, CRC Press. The final version of this text is to be found in this book – once available the ISBN number of the book will be given. The preprint is available as http://www.math.su.se/~hoehle/pubs/Hoehle_ SpaMethInfEpiMode...

Infectious disease modelling and causal inference

When applying survival analysis, such as Cox regression, to data frommajor clinical trials or other studies, often only baseline covariates are used.This is typically the case even if updated covariates are available throughoutthe observation period, which leaves large amounts of information unused.The main reason for this is that such time-dependent covariates often areinte...

The AMSI workshop on Infectious Disease Modelling

Editorial Commentary: Infectious Diseases/Critical Care Medicine: Time to Embrace a New Subspecialty of Infectious Disease.

Infectious diseases (ID) is a broad specialty with many areas of specialization. In the past, academic ID physicians became experts in areas based on their research focus, but in recent times, ID clinicians are increasingly subspecialized with areas of expertise in hospital epidemiology and antimicrobial stewardship, transplant ID, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/ AIDS, hepatitis C, and glob...

A User ' s Guide to Infectious Disease Modelling