Coughing, sneezing, and aching online: Twitter and the volume of influenza-like illness in a pediatric hospital

PLoS ONE

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2017, Pages

  Hartley, David M ^a   Giannini, Courtney M ^b   Wilson, Stephanie ^a   Frieder, Ophir ^c   Margolis, Peter A ^a   Kotagal, Uma R ^a   White, Denise L ^a   Connelly, Beverly L ^a   Wheeler, Derek S ^a   Tadesse, Dawit G ^a   Macaluso, Maurizio ^a  

^a CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; COUGHING; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INTERNET; ONLINE SYSTEM; PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL; SNEEZING; SOCIAL MEDIA; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; EPIDEMIC; GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING; HOSPITAL; INCIDENCE; PAIN; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

COUGH; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; PAIN; SNEEZING; SOCIAL MEDIA;

EID: 85026486238     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0182008     Document Type: Article

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