Selected article for: "digital disease surveillance and disease surveillance"

Author: Santillana, Mauricio; Nsoesie, Elaine O.; Mekaru, Sumiko R.; Scales, David; Brownstein, John S.
Title: Using Clinicians’ Search Query Data to Monitor Influenza Epidemics
  • Cord-id: 71tnv4lp
  • Document date: 2014_8_12
  • ID: 71tnv4lp
    Snippet: Search query information from a clinician's database, UpToDate, is shown to predict influenza epidemics in the United States in a timely manner. Our results show that digital disease surveillance tools based on experts' databases may be able to provide an alternative, reliable, and stable signal for accurate predictions of influenza outbreaks.
    Document: Search query information from a clinician's database, UpToDate, is shown to predict influenza epidemics in the United States in a timely manner. Our results show that digital disease surveillance tools based on experts' databases may be able to provide an alternative, reliable, and stable signal for accurate predictions of influenza outbreaks.

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