Emergency Department Surveillance as a Proxy For The Prediction of Circulating Respiratory Viral Disease in Eastern Ontario
Author(s) -
Geoffrey Hall,
Thomas Krahn,
Anna Majury,
Adam van Dijk,
Gerald A. Evans,
Kieran Moore,
Allison Maier
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
canadian journal of infectious diseases and medical microbiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.634
H-Index - 38
eISSN - 1918-1493
pISSN - 1712-9532
DOI - 10.1155/2013/386018
Subject(s) - emergency department , proxy (statistics) , medicine , disease , respiratory system , emergency medicine , intensive care medicine , computer science , machine learning , psychiatry
Seasonal outbreaks of winter respiratory viruses are responsible for increases in morbidity and mortality in the community. Previous studies have used hospitalizations, intensive care unit and emergency department (ED) visits as indicators of seasonal influenza incidence.
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