Using social media to perform local influenza surveillance in an inner-city hospital: A retrospective observational study

JMIR Public Health and Surveillance

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Broniatowski, David Andre ^a   Dredze, Mark ^b   Paul, Michael J ^b   Dugas, Andrea ^c  

^a George Washington University   (United States)

^b Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Social computing; Time series analysis; Web mining

Indexed keywords

EID: 85014799325     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23692960     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/publichealth.4472     Document Type: Article

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