Potential for early warning of viral influenza activity in the community by monitoring clinical diagnoses of influenza in hospital emergency departments

BMC Public Health

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Zheng, Wei ^a   Aitken, Robert ^a   Muscatello, David J ^a   Churches, Tim ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND RESEARCH   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CHILD; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFLUENZA; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONITORING; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EPIDEMIC; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH; VIROLOGY;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; NEW SOUTH WALES; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PUBLIC HEALTH;

EID: 36049022192     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-7-250     Document Type: Article

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