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Influenza surveillance using inpatient health information exchange data
Content Type: Abstract
During the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic, the Washington State Department of Health (DOH) temporarily made lab-confirmed influenza hospitalizations and deaths reportable. As reporting influenza hospitalizations is resource intensive for hospitals,… read more… and unique identifiers. WA-HIE inpatient data may be valuable for monitoring influenza activity, influenza … record is transmitted 1 day after admission (range 0–26 days). One or more data elements were missing from 34% of … source of hospitalization information. Despite a lack of com- plete overlap between records reported through PHIMS …