Using clinicians' Search query data to monitor influenza epidemics

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 59, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1446-1450

  Santillana, Mauricio ^a,b   Nsoesie, Elaine O ^b,c   Mekaru, Sumiko R ^b   Scales, David ^b,d   Brownstein, John S ^b,c,e  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d CAMBRIDGE HEALTH ALLIANCE   (United States)

^e MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Digital disease detection; Internet based disease surveillance; Prediction of influenza

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA BASE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFLUENZA; INFORMATION; PREDICTION; UNITED STATES; FACTUAL DATABASE; HEALTH SURVEY; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; INTERNET; PHYSICIAN; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY;

DATABASES, FACTUAL; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; INTERNET; PHYSICIANS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84918787542     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciu647     Document Type: Article

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