Table 1.
The influence of day of the week on log of total disease alerts*
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| Weekday (N=1,097) | % Change** | 95% CI** | p | % Change** | 95% CI** | p |
| Monday | −14.7 | (−20.3, −9.1)) | 0.02 | −9.2 | (−14.6, −7.2) | 0.04 |
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| Wednesday | 1.4 | (−3.1, 6.0) | 0.84 | −2.8 | (−7.6, 1.1) | 0.53 |
| Thursday | 7.8 | (−3.7, 19.2) | 0.26 | 1.5 | (−6.7, 7.3) | 0.75 |
| Friday | −3.3 | (−16.9, 10.3) | 0.67 | −3.2 | (−11.9, 4.6) | 0.48 |
| Saturday | −58.3 | (−72.7, −43.8) | <0.01 | −39.8 | (−48.9, −30.0) | <0.01 |
| Sunday | −65.9 | (−78.9, −52.9) | <0.01 | −46.6 | (−55.3, −34.8) | <0.01 |
| Adjusted R 2 | 0.34 | 0.27 | ||||
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Including influenza/H1N1, cholera, avian influenza and foodborne illness.
**
Calculation based on formula from Halvorsen and Palmquist (38) applied to OLS coefficient; The Delta method (formula for which can be found in Greene (39)), was used in the computation of the confidence intervals.
OLS, ordinary least square.
Bold values indicate instances where p<0.05.