Syndromic Surveillance for Influenzalike Illness in Ambulatory Care Setting

Conventional disease surveillance mechanisms that rely on passive reporting may be too slow and insensitive to rapidly detect a large-scale infectious disease outbreak; the reporting time from a patient’s initial symptoms to specific disease diagnosis takes days to weeks. To meet this need, new surv...

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Main Authors: Benjamin Miller, Heidi Kassenborg, William Dunsmuir, Jayne Griffith, Mansour Hadidi, James D. Nordin, Richard Danila
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2004-10-01
Series:Emerging Infectious Diseases
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Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/10/10/03-0789_article