Incidence and risk factors for influenza-like-illness in the UK: online surveillance using Flusurvey
Open Access
- 1 May 2014
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in BMC Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 14 (1), 232
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-14-232
Abstract
Influenza and Influenza-like-illness (ILI) represents a substantial public health problem, but it is difficult to measure the overall burden as many cases do not access health care. Community cohorts have the advantage of not requiring individuals to present at hospitals and surgeries and therefore can potentially monitor a wider variety of cases. This study reports on the incidence and risk factors for ILI in the UK as measured using Flusurvey, an internet-based open community cohort.This publication has 19 references indexed in Scilit:
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