Correlation between national influenza surveillance data and search queries from mobile devices and desktops in South Korea

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2016, Pages

  Shin, Soo Yong ^a   Kim, Taerim ^b   Seo, Dong Woo ^b   Sohn, Chang Hwan ^b   Kim, Sung Hoon ^b   Ryoo, Seung Mok ^b   Lee, Yoon Seon ^b   Lee, Jae Ho ^a,b   Kim, Won Young ^b   Lim, Kyoung Soo ^b  

^a Asan Medical Center   (South Korea)

^b University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; INFLUENZA; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERNET; MOBILE PHONE; SEARCH ENGINE; SOUTH KOREA; VIROLOGY; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMATION SEEKING; MICROCOMPUTER; SMARTPHONE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; INFORMATION SEEKING BEHAVIOR; INTERNET; MICROCOMPUTERS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; SEARCH ENGINE; SMARTPHONE;

EID: 84979497583     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0158539     Document Type: Article

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