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Telephone Triage Data for Detection of Influenza-like Illness
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National surveillance is used to detect the emergence and spread of influenza virus variants and to monitor influenza-related morbidity and mortality. Nurse telephone triage (“call”) data may serve as a useful complement to… read more… and mortality. Nurse telephone triage (“call”) data may serve as a useful complement to traditional influenza … on number of influenza isolates and percentage of total visits to sentinel providers for influenza-like illness were … [2] Henry JV, Magruder S, Snyder M. Comparison of office visit and nurse advice hotline data for syndromic … -
Nurse Call Data for Detection of Influenza-Like Illness
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Influenza affects millions of people and causes about 36,000 deaths in the United States each winter. Pandemics of influenza emerge at irregular intervals. National influenza surveillance is used to detect the emergence and spread of influenza virus… read more… such data for influenza-like illness (ILI) surveillance may lead to earlier detection of ILI in the community, both … data on number of influenza isolates and percentage of visits for ILI from sentinel providers were com- pared to rolling, seven-day totals of calls for ILI and … -
A County Health Department's Analysis and Dissemination Algorithm of a Neruological Syndrome Aberration to Respective Community Stakeholders
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The purpose of this study is to depict a local county health departmentÃs analysis and dissemination algorithm of surveillance system (SS) aberration (alarm) to designated stakeholders within the community.… to contact is dependent on the level of the alarm. This may be determined by, the number of reporting Emergency … [age, sex, zip code, facility location, and time of visit] for possible epidemiological links, (5) Correlated … to the targeted audience, otherwise the stakeholders may not value the information if they do not understand how …