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Google Flu Trends: Correlation with Emergency Department Influenza Rates and Crowding Metrics
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Emergency Departments (ED) supply critical infrastructure to provide medical care in the event of a disaster or disease outbreak, including seasonal and pandemic influenza [1]. Already over-crowded and stretched to near-capacity, influenza activity… read more -
Google Flu Trends: Spatial Correlation with Influenza Emergency Department Visits
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GFT is a surveillance tool that gathers data on local internet searches to estimate the emergence of influenza-like illness in a given geographic location in real time.3 Previously, GFT has been proven to strongly correlate with influenza incidence… read more