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Farzad Mostashari
Researcher at New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
Publications - 92
Citations - 11128
Farzad Mostashari is an academic researcher from New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. The author has contributed to research in topics: Health care & Health information technology. The author has an hindex of 51, co-authored 92 publications receiving 10337 citations. Previous affiliations of Farzad Mostashari include Duke University & Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.
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The Outbreak of West Nile Virus Infection in the New York City Area in 1999
Denis Nash,Farzad Mostashari,Annie D. Fine,James R. Miller,D O'Leary,Kristy O. Murray,A Huang,A Rosenberg,A Greenberg,M Sherman,S Wong,Marcelle Layton +11 more
TL;DR: In this paper, an unusual cluster of cases of meningoencephalitis associated with muscle weakness was reported to the New York City Department of Health and the initial epidemiologic and environmental investigations suggested an arboviral cause.
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A space-time permutation scan statistic for disease outbreak detection.
Martin Kulldorff,Richard Heffernan,Jessica Hartman,Jessica Hartman,Renato M. Assunção,Farzad Mostashari +5 more
TL;DR: If results hold up over longer study times and in other locations, the space–time permutation scan statistic will be an important tool for local and national health departments that are setting up early disease detection surveillance systems.
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Epidemic West Nile encephalitis, New York, 1999: results of a household-based seroepidemiological survey
Farzad Mostashari,Farzad Mostashari,Michel L. Bunning,Paul T Kitsutani,Daniel A Singer,Denis Nash,Denis Nash,Michael J Cooper,Michael J Cooper,Naomi Katz,Karen A Liljebjelke,Brad J. Biggerstaff,Annie D. Fine,Marcelle Layton,Sandra Mullin,Alison J. Johnson,Denise A. Martin,Edward B. Hayes,Grant L. Campbell +18 more
TL;DR: A household-based seroepidemiological survey to assess more clearly the public-health impact of the 1999 West Nile virus epidemic, its range of illness, and risk factors associated with infection in New York City, USA.
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Trust and the acceptance of and adherence to antiretroviral therapy.
TL;DR: Characteristics of the therapeutic agents and the degree of social isolation predict adherence, which may inform the design of interventions to improve both acceptance of and adherence to ART particularly among marginalized populations who have not derived full benefit from these potent new therapies.
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Estimation of Excess Deaths Associated With the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States, March to May 2020.
Daniel M. Weinberger,J. Chen,Ted Cohen,Forrest W. Crawford,Farzad Mostashari,Donald R. Olson,Virginia E. Pitzer,Nicholas G. Reich,Marcus Russi,Lone Simonsen,Anne E. Watkins,Cécile Viboud +11 more
TL;DR: Excess deaths provide an estimate of the full COVID-19 burden and indicate that official tallies likely undercount deaths due to the virus.