Publications – Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics

Machine learning approaches to predicting no-shows in pediatric medical appointment.

Author(s): Liu D, Shin WY, Sprecher E, Conroy K, Santiago O, Wachtel G, Santillana MJournal: NPJ Digit MedPMID: 35444260 April 2022

Patients' no-shows, scheduled but unattended medical appointments, have a direct negative impact on patients' health, due to discontinuity of treatment…

Real-time estimation of disease activity in emerging outbreaks using internet search information.

Author(s): Aiken EL, McGough SF, Majumder MS, Wachtel G, Nguyen AT, Viboud C, Santillana MJournal: PLoS Comput BiolPMID: 32804932 August 2020

Understanding the behavior of emerging disease outbreaks in, or ahead of, real-time could help healthcare officials better design interventions to…