Syndromic Surveillance of Gastrointestinal Illness Using Pharmacy Over-the-Counter Sales
- 1 November 2004
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Canadian Journal of Public Health
- Vol. 95 (6), 446-450
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf03403991
Abstract
To ascertain if monitoring over-the-counter (OTC) drug sales could provide a timely syndromic surveillance method of detecting outbreaks of gastrointestinal illness.Keywords
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