Can syndromic thresholds provide early warning of national influenza outbreaks?
Author(s) -
D.L. Cooper,
Neville Q. Verlander,
Alex J. Elliot,
Carly A. Joseph,
Gillian Smith
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.916
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1741-3850
pISSN - 1741-3842
DOI - 10.1093/pubmed/fdm068
Subject(s) - medicine , outbreak , poisson regression , incidence (geometry) , warning system , epidemiology , public health , pandemic , early warning score , environmental health , emergency medicine , pediatrics , medical emergency , intensive care medicine , covid-19 , virology , disease , pathology , population , physics , engineering , infectious disease (medical specialty) , optics , aerospace engineering
Influenza incidence thresholds are used to help predict the likely impact of influenza and inform health professionals and the public of current activity. We evaluate the potential of syndromic data (calls to a UK health helpline NHS Direct) to provide early warning of national influenza outbreaks.
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