Using Nurse Hot Line Calls for Disease Surveillance

Nurse hot line calls are a potential source of public health surveillance data and may help identify epidemics of emerging infectious diseases. In this study, nurse hot line data from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, showed more than a 17-fold increase in calls for diarrhea during the 1993 Milwaukee cryptospor...

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Main Authors: Jane Somsel Rodman, Floyd Frost, Walter Jakubowski
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 1998-06-01
Series:Emerging Infectious Diseases
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Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/4/2/98-0226_article