Using Clinicians' Search Query Data to Monitor Influenza Epidemics

Overview

Journal Clin Infect Dis

Publisher Oxford University Press

Specialty Infectious Diseases

Date 2014 Aug 14

PMID 25115873

Citations 41

Authors

Mauricio Santillana

Elaine O Nsoesie

Sumiko R Mekaru

David Scales

John S Brownstein

Affiliations

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Abstract

Search query information from a clinician's database, UpToDate, is shown to predict influenza epidemics in the United States in a timely manner. Our results show that digital disease surveillance tools based on experts' databases may be able to provide an alternative, reliable, and stable signal for accurate predictions of influenza outbreaks.

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