Comparison: Flu Prescription Sales Data from a Retail Pharmacy in the US with Google Flu Trends and US ILINet (CDC) Data as Flu Activity Indicator

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Patwardhan, Avinash ^a   Bilkovski, Robert ^a  

^a Walgreen   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMANTADINE; OSELTAMIVIR; RIMANTADINE; ZANAMIVIR;

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DRUG MARKETING; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERNET; MEDICAL SOCIETY; OUTPATIENT INFLUENZA LIKE ILLNESS SURVEILLANCE NETWORK; POSTMARKETING SURVEILLANCE; PRESCRIPTION; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREND STUDY; UNITED STATES; WEB BROWSER;

ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (U.S.); DATABASES, FACTUAL; DRUG PRESCRIPTIONS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; PHARMACY; UNITED STATES;

ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE;

EID: 84865598975     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0043611     Document Type: Article

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