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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… University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA E-mail: nau2@pitt.edu Objective We developed a novel method … -
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in biosurveillance has been previously shown… read more… *Arturo López-Pineda E-mail: arl68@pitt.edu (page number not for citation purpose) …