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Potential for early warning of viral influenza activity in the community by monitoring clinical diagnoses of influenza in hospital emergency departments
2007
BMC Public Health
Although syndromic surveillance systems are gaining acceptance as useful tools in public health, doubts remain about whether the anticipated early warning benefits exist. Many assessments of this question do not adequately account for the confounding effects of autocorrelation and trend when comparing surveillance time series and few compare the syndromic data stream against a continuous laboratory-based standard. We used time series methods to assess whether monitoring of daily counts of
doi:10.1186/1471-2458-7-250
pmid:17877836
pmcid:PMC2075512
fatcat:2d7oriuwy5eezk6f76ae2eajx4