Using Nurse Hot Line Calls for Disease Surveillance

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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United States
Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/4/2/98-0226_article
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spelling doaj-ea503143641146c2a390d9004f0fd52b2020-11-24T23:08:23ZengCenters for Disease Control and PreventionEmerging Infectious Diseases1080-60401080-60591998-06-014232933210.3201/eid0402.980226Using Nurse Hot Line Calls for Disease SurveillanceJane Somsel RodmanFloyd FrostWalter JakubowskiNurse 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 cryptosporidiosis outbreak. Moreover, consistent patterns of seasonal variation in diarrhea- and vomiting-related calls were detected from the Baltimore, Maryland, and Albuquerque, New Mexico, hot lines. Analysis of nurse hot line calls may provide an inexpensive and timely method for improving disease surveillance.https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/4/2/98-0226_articleUnited States
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description 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 cryptosporidiosis outbreak. Moreover, consistent patterns of seasonal variation in diarrhea- and vomiting-related calls were detected from the Baltimore, Maryland, and Albuquerque, New Mexico, hot lines. Analysis of nurse hot line calls may provide an inexpensive and timely method for improving disease surveillance.
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