Demonstrating the use of high-volume electronic medical claims data to monitor local and regional influenza activity in the US.

<h4>Introduction</h4>Fine-grained influenza surveillance data are lacking in the US, hampering our ability to monitor disease spread at a local scale. Here we evaluate the performances of high-volume electronic medical claims data to assess local and regional influenza activity.<h4>...

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Main Authors: Cécile Viboud, Vivek Charu, Donald Olson, Sébastien Ballesteros, Julia Gog, Farid Khan, Bryan Grenfell, Lone Simonsen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/25072598/pdf/?tool=EBI