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Monitoring Twitter content related to Influenza-like-Illness in Spanish-speaking populations
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Influenza is a recurrent viral disease with potential to result in pandemics. Therefore it is necessary to have a timely, responsive and accurate detection. The use of Twitter as a source for data mining in biosurveillance has been previously shown… read more… hourly updates of the search. Results The prototype website operated for a pilot period of 1 month starting … 9, 2001]; Available from: http://www.who.int/csr/dis- ease/influenza/influenzanetwork/flunet. *Arturo … permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in … -
Data quality in federated disease surveillance: using variability as an indicator of quality
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Most, if not all, disease surveillance systems are federated in the sense that hospitals, doctors’ offices, pharmacies are the source of most surveillance data. Although a health department may request or mandate that these… read more… Most, if not all, disease surveillance systems are federated in the sense … by public health provide data.’ Introduction Most, if not all, disease surveillance systems are federated in the sense … removal of those stores from a surveillance system did not improve the ability of a typical surveillance …