Tuberculosis
- LTBI estimation
- Data Processing
- MI Ratio Approach
- TB splits
- Calculate prevalence and incidence among the entire population
- Mixed effects regression to predict location-year specific %HIVTB among TB cases
- Apply %HIVTB to TB all forms by location\year
- Age split HIVTB prevalent & incident cases by HIV prevalence
- Calculate proportions of MDR-TB in HIV-TB cases
- Apply MDR-HIV-TB proportions to HIV-TB cases
- Apply super-region level proportions of XDR-TB in MDR-TB cases to all MDR-HIV-TB cases
- Subtract XDR-HIV-TB from MDR-HIV-TB
- Subtract MDR HIVTB from HIVTB
- Subtract HIVTB from TB all forms
- Compute proportions of retreated cases among all TB cases
- Compute proportions of MDR-TB among new TB cases w/DST results
- Compute proportions of MDR-TB among retreated TB cases w/DST results
- Space-time Gaussian Process Regression
- Compute proportions of new cases among all TB cases
- Computed weighted average of the proportions of new and retreated cases w/MDR-TB
- Calculate proportions of MDR-TB in TB no-HIV cases
- Apply MDR-TB proportions
- Subtract MDRTB no-HIV from TB no-HIV
- Calculate super-region level proportions of XDR- TB among MDR-TB cases
- Apply super-region level proportions of XDR-TB among MDR-TB cases to all MDR-TB cases
- Subtract XDR-TB no-HIV from MDR-TB no-HIV
Typhoid & Paratyphoid
- Comorbidity correction (COMO)
- Diagnostic sensitivity adjustment
- DisMod model of incidence
- DisMod model of proportion
- Incidence split
- Metaanalysis of blood culture sensitivity
- Rescaling to sum to 1
- Severity splits
Upper Respiratory Infections
- % mild, moderate, severe
- Age sex splitting
- Comorbidity correction (COMO)
- Converting period to point prevalence
- DisMod-MR 2.1
- Severity splits
Urticaria
- Age-sex splitting
- Comorbidity correction (COMO)
- Dismod-MR 2.1
- Meta-analysis of % mild and severe Urticaria
- Severity splits
Uterine fibroids
- Adjustment from primary code to all code based on Claims data
- Comorbidity correction (COMO)
- Dismod-MR 2.1
- Meta-analysis of % mild, moderate, severe uterine fibroids
- Severity splits
- Age and sex split
- Crosswalks
- Estimation of asymptomatic and total cases
Varicella and herpes zoster
- Varicella (chickenpox)
- Herpes zoster
Vascular intestinal disorders
- Adjustment from primary code to all code for both inpatient and outpatient encounters based on claims data
- Comorbidity correction (COMO)
- DisMod-MR 2.1
- Model excess mortality in MR-BRT
- MR-BRT bias correction analysis for altenrative case definition/method
Viral skin diseases
- Adjustment from primary code to all code based on Claims data
- Age-sex splitting
- Comorbidity correction (COMO)
- Dismod-MR 2.1
- Meta-analysis of % mild and severe Viral skin diseases
- Severity splits
Visceral leishmaniasis
- Comorbidity correction (COMO)
- ST-GPR
- Age-sex splitting
- Presence and underreporting adjustment
- Sequela split
Vision Impairment
- Comorbidity correction (COMO)
- MR-BRT Sex Ratio Analysis
- Age Pattern analysis
- MR-BRT bias correction analysis for Alternative Case Defintion / Method
- Dismod-MR 2.1
- Proportionally squeeze sum of causes to fit each severity envelope
Vitamin A deficiency
- ST-GPR (Vit A supplementation coverage)
- ST-GPR (Vit A deficiency)
- DisMod-MR 2.1 (Prevalence of vision loss due to Vit A deficiency)
- Vision loss envelope
- Severity splits
- Subtract from Vit A deficiency (total)
- Comorbidity correction (COMO)
- Vitamin A deficiency
Whooping Cough
- Age & sex splitting (based on cause of death data)
- Assume all pertussis cases are moderate infections
- Comorbidity correction (COMO)
- Mixed effects regression
- Prevalence = incidence * duration
Yellow fever
- Asymptomatic estimation
- Comorbidity correction (COMO)
- Mixed effects negative binomial model
- Severity split
- Underreporting correction
Zika
