Increased emergency department chief complaints of fever identified the influenza (H1N1) pandemic before outpatient symptom surveillance

Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 69-72

  Shimoni, Zvi ^a   Rodrig, Joseph ^a   Dusseldorp, Natan ^a   Niven, Mark ^a   Froom, Paul ^b,c  

^a LANIADO HOSPITAL   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c Maagan Michael   (Israel)

Author keywords

Clusters; Emergency department; Epidemics; Fever; Influenza

Indexed keywords

2009 H1N1 INFLUENZA; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEVER; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; MEDICAL ASSISTANT; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PANDEMIC; PATIENT CODING; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITALIZATION; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H1N1; ISRAEL; PHYSIOLOGY;

EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEVER; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; ISRAEL; PANDEMICS;

EID: 84861304608     PISSN: 1342078X     EISSN: 13474715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12199-011-0213-2     Document Type: Article

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