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Timeliness of Ambulatory Data for Age-Specific ILI Surveillance
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While there has been some work to evaluate different data sources for syndromic surveillance of influenza, no one has yet assessed the utility of simultaneously restricting data to specific visit settings and patient age-groups using… read more… utility of simultaneously restricting data to specific visit settings and patient age-groups using data drawn from … the timeliness of data from community-based primary care. Objective Using physician billing data from a single … source population, we aimed to compare age-group and visit setting specific patterns in the timing of patients … -
Crowdout: When do other events hinder informal disease surveillance?
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Informal surveillance systems like HealthMap are effective at the early detection of outbreaks. However, reliance on informal sources such as news media makes the efficiency of these systems vulnerable to newsroom constraints, namely high-profile… read more… Inform Assoc. 2004;11:141�50. 2. Brownstein JS, Freifeld CC, Chan EH, Keller M, Sonricker AL, Mekaru SR, et al. … N Engl J Med. 2010;362:1731�5. 3. Brownstein JS, Freifeld CC, Reis BY, Mandl KD. Surveillance Sans Frontieres: …