Are influenza surveillance data useful for mapping presentations?

Virus Research

Volumn 103, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 35-46

  Uphoff, H ^a   Stalleicken, I ^c   Bartelds, A ^b   Phiesel, B ^c   Kistemann, B T ^c  

^a AGI   (Germany)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Influenza; Mapping; Pan national; Sentinel; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; CONFERENCE PAPER; DATA ANALYSIS; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; GENE MAPPING; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GERMANY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; MORBIDITY; NETHERLANDS; PERIODIC MEDICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DISEASE NOTIFICATION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GERMANY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; NETHERLANDS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE;

EID: 2442597736     PISSN: 01681702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.virusres.2004.02.010     Document Type: Conference Paper

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