Open AccessThe Impact of a Case of Ebola Virus Disease on Emergency Department Visits in Metropolitan Dallas-Fort Worth, TX, July, 2013–July, 2015: An Interrupted Time Series Analysis
Author(s) -
Noelle-Angelique Molinari,
Tanya Telfair LeBlanc,
William Stephens
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
plos currents
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.282
H-Index - 49
ISSN - 2157-3999
DOI - 10.1371/currents.outbreaks.e62bdea371ef5454d56f71fe217aead0
Subject(s) - medicine , emergency department , ebola virus , public health , emergency medicine , outbreak , medical emergency , metropolitan area , triage , autoregressive integrated moving average , demography , time series , nursing , pathology , virology , machine learning , psychiatry , sociology , computer science
The first Ebola virus disease (EVD) case in the United States (US) was confirmed September 30, 2014 in a man 45 years old. This event created considerable media attention and there was fear of an EVD outbreak in the US.