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reporting delay is thus a precondition for valuable prospective monitoring.
Approaches exist for dealing with such reporting delay (see, e.g., Heisterkamp
et al. 2006), but these are currently not available for routine use in
surveil-
lance
and have also not methodologically been adapted to the CUSUM
context. Finally, the open-source and copyleft approach of the R system and
surveillance
is well suited for the EuroMOMO project aim of obtaining a
mortality monitoring system operating in many different countries.
Acknowledgments
We thank Christiane Dargatz for proofreading the manuscript. The
EuroMOMO project has received funding from the European Union in the
framework of the Public Health Programme. However, the responsibility
for the content lies solely with the authors, and the European Union is not
responsible for any use that may be made of the information.
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