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Surveillance for acute respiratory infections: should we include all outpatient visits or focus on urgent care areas?
Content Type: Abstract
A comprehensive electronic medical record (EMR) represents a rich source of information that can be harnessed for epidemic surveillance. At this time, however, we do not know how EMR-based data elements should be combined to improve the performance… read more… (ARI) were seen in the emergency room or other urgent care areas, but that these areas received only 15% of total outpatient visits. Because of this seemingly favorable signal-to-noise … we include all outpatient visits or focus on urgent care areas? H Zheng1,2, T Siddiqui1,2, and S DeLisle1,2 …