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The validity of emergency department influenza-like-illness (ILI) for laboratory-confirmed influenza in children
Content Type: Abstract
Syndromic surveillance systems use electronic health-related data to support near-real time disease surveillance. Over the last 10 years, the use of ILI syndromes defined from emergency department (ED) data has become an increasingly accepted… read more… time of study. Results We studied approximately 14,000 visits during the discrete year and 32,000 visits during concomitant years. Viral results were unavailable for approximately 75% of respiratory visits and multiple imputation was used to impute values. …