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Using influenza rapid test positivity as an early indicator for the onset of seasonal influenza
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Influenza causes significant morbidity and mortality, with attendant costs of roughly $10 billion for treatment and up to $77 billion in indirect costs annually. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention conducts annual influenza… read more… via the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s website. Early notification might facilitate clinical … via the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s website.5 Early notification might facilitate clinical … coincided in time. An early alert was identified in all four seasons using rapid test positivity, although no … -
Virtual public health informatics training: development and delivery of an online public health informatics course
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Public health informatics is an emerging interdisciplinary field that uses information technology and informatics methods to meet public health goals. To achieve these goals, education and training of a new generation of public health informaticians… read more… to present their projects. Feedback was collected by dis- tributing a student evaluation questionnaire to each …