Real-time prescription surveillance and its application to monitoring seasonal influenza activity in Japan

Journal of Medical Internet Research

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Sugawara, Tamie ^a   Ohkusa, Yasushi ^a   Ibuka, Yoko ^b   Kawanohara, Hirokazu ^c   Taniguchi, Kiyosu ^a   Okabe, Nobuhiko ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^b HITOTSUBASHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Asahi EMS Co Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anti influenza virus; Automatic surveillance; Early response; Influenza; Pharmacy; Prescriptions; Real time surveillance; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DRUG USE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; JAPAN; PRESCRIPTION; SEASON;

DRUG PRESCRIPTIONS; DRUG UTILIZATION REVIEW; HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; JAPAN; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SEASONS;

EID: 84856300454     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14388871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/jmir.1881     Document Type: Article

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