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  • 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
    … created as part of the routine delivery of medical care might supplement current data sources. Nurse call data … people with ILI may call a nurse line before seeking care at a health-care facility and because the data are more timely than … Harmon,3 Richard Platt,1 1 Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard …
  • 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
    … Harmon,3 Richard Platt,1 1 Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard … 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 …
  • 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 departmentís analysis and dissemination algorithm of surveillance system (SS) aberration (alarm) to designated stakeholders within the community.
    … [age, sex, zip code, facility location, and time of visit] for possible epidemiological links, (5) Correlated …