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Estimating Hospital Admissions for Influenza Using Emergency Department (ED) Syndromic Surveillance Data, New York City
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An important goal of influenza surveillance is to provide public health decisionmakers with timely estimates of the severity of community-wide influenza. One potential indicator is the number of influenza hospitalizations. In New… read more… data are received daily for approximately 90% of NYC ED visits, and include patient’s age, gender and chief complaint. ED ILI visits were defined as any visit whose chief complaint … fever-flu or respiratory syndrome. Weekly excess ED ILI visits were estimated as above using Serfling regression. …