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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 … in places traditional surveillance is not operating. It may also be useful to detect increased occurrence … morbidity and mortality. Nurse call data may serve as a useful complement to traditional influenza … -
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 because people with ILI may call a nurse line before seeking care at a health-care … manual data entry. Using such data for ILI surveil- lance may lead to earlier detection of ILI in the community, both … -
Comparing the Utility of Ambulatory Care and Emergency Room Data for Disease Outbreak Detection
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To compare the ability to detect disease outbreaks of separate and combined data streams from ambulatory care and emergency department from Harvard Pilgrim Health Care.… made among them. Alternatively, these data sources can be com- bined in order to generate a common sequence of … sources of data can be correlated since individuals may seek care in a variety of settings, including hospital … -
Multi-Method Comparison of Detecting Common Events of Public Health Interest: a Multi-Site, Multi-Stream Simulation Study
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Existing statistical methods can perform well in detecting simulated bioterrorism events. However, these methods have not been well-evaluated for detection of the type of respiratory and gastrointestinal events of greatest… read more… Demonstration Program [4] from June 2005 through May 2006. The program covers approximately 10% of the …