August 30, 2016 SPADA Meeting Book

Clinical Laboratory Algorithm Development and Successes

• Focuses clinical attention to most serious look-a-likes • Focuses lab attention to most serious contenders • Helps define/remind what conditions are most frequently confused with

possible smallpox • Frames logic for

approaching diagnostics • Minimizes false positives • Use of the algorithm in 2002*

Seward et. al. CID 2004

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