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Monitoring Twitter content related to Influenza-like-Illness in Spanish-speaking populations
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Influenza is a recurrent viral disease with potential to result in pandemics. Therefore it is necessary to have a timely, responsive and accurate detection. The use of Twitter as a source for data mining in biosurveillance has been previously shown… read more -
Data quality in federated disease surveillance: using variability as an indicator of quality
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Most, if not all, disease surveillance systems are federated in the sense that hospitals, doctors’ offices, pharmacies are the source of most surveillance data. Although a health department may request or mandate that these… read more