"Med-X": A Medical Examiner Surveillance Model for Bioterrorism and Infectious Disease Mortality

• 2007

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• Kurt Nolte; Sarah Lathrop; Marcus Nashelsky; Jeffrey Nine; Margaret Gallaher; Edith Umland
PMID: 17437862DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.humpath.2007.02.003

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This article describes a system called "Med-X" that helps medical examiners find deaths caused by infections and bioterrorism. It was tested in New Mexico from 2000 to 2002. Out of 6104 cases, 250 met the criteria for Med-X, with over half being due to infections. The system helped identify specific germs causing these deaths and increased autopsies by only 1%. Using symptoms like flu-like signs can predict fatal infections well. Med-X improves how medical examiners report infectious disease deaths, helping public health officials recognize threats like bioterrorism more effectively.

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Focus Areas: CBRNE; Infectious Disease

Audiences: Emergency Managers; Physicians; Public Health Professionals

Emergency Management Stage: Mitigation

Collection: Disaster Research Literature Review

Keywords: Autopsy; Child, Preschool; Communicable Diseases; Coroners and Medical Examiners; Disaster Planning; Disease Outbreaks; Infant; Models, Biological; New Mexico; Population Surveillance; Predictive Value of Tests; Sensitivity and Specificity; Adolescent; Middle Aged; Bioterrorism; Infectious Disease Medicine; Forensic Pathology; Databases as Topic

Institutions: University of New Mexico

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