Open AccessDetection of Excess Influenza Severity: Associating Respiratory Hospitalization and Mortality Data With Reports of Influenza-Like Illness by Primary Care Physicians
Author(s) -
Cees C. van den Wijngaard,
Liselotte van Asten,
Adam Meijer,
Wilfrid van Pelt,
Nico Nagelkerke,
G.A. Donker,
Marianne A. B. van der Sande,
Marion Koopmans
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.2009.168245
Subject(s) - medicine , case fatality rate , influenza like illness , incidence (geometry) , pandemic , population , pneumonia , mortality rate , respiratory illness , human mortality from h5n1 , intensive care medicine , emergency medicine , covid-19 , respiratory system , environmental health , immunology , virus , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , physics , optics
We explored whether excesses in influenza severity can be detected by combining respiratory syndromic hospital and mortality data with data on influenza-like illness (ILI) cases obtained from general practitioners.