Internet-based remote health self-checker symptom data as an adjuvant to a national syndromic surveillance system

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 143, Issue 16, 2015, Pages 3416-3422

  Elliot, A J ^a   Kara, E O ^a   Loveridge, P ^a   Bawa, Z ^a   Morbey, R A ^a   Moth, M ^b,c   Large, S ^c   Smith, G E ^a  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b NHS Choices   (United Kingdom)

^c NHS Direct   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Internet; public health; syndromic surveillance; telehealth

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DYSPNEA; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EYE DISEASE; INFLUENZA; INTERNET; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SELF REPORT; SYMPTOM; TELEHEALTH; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; PATHOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES; TELEPHONE; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DATA COLLECTION; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTERNET; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TELEPHONE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84955348362     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268815000503     Document Type: Article

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