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The validity of emergency department influenza-like-illness (ILI) for laboratory-confirmed influenza in children
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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… lab-confirmed influenza: (1) ILI from chief complaint (CC) or diagnoses codes (‘‘ILI’’); (2) ILI from CC alone; (3) febrile illness from CC or diagnoses … time of study. Results We studied approximately 14,000 visits during the discrete year and 32,000 visits during …