Using Clinicians' Search Query Data to Monitor Influenza Epidemics
- 12 August 2014
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Clinical Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 59 (10), 1446-1450
- https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciu647
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.Keywords
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