Telephone triage service data for detection of influenza-like illness.

<h4>Background</h4>Surveillance for influenza and influenza-like illness (ILI) is important for guiding public health prevention programs to mitigate the morbidity and mortality caused by influenza, including pandemic influenza. Nontraditional sources of data for influenza and ILI survei...

Descripción completa

Guardado en:

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales:	W Katherine Yih, Kathryn S Teates, Allyson Abrams, Ken Kleinman, Martin Kulldorff, Robert Pinner, Robert Harmon, Stanley Wang, Richard Platt
Formato:	article
Lenguaje:	EN
Publicado:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009
Materias:	Medicine R Science Q
Acceso en línea:	https://doaj.org/article/2c3f1979273242afb62e4cd9794d952e
Etiquetas:	Agregar Etiqueta Sin Etiquetas, Sea el primero en etiquetar este registro!

id	oai:doaj.org-article:2c3f1979273242afb62e4cd9794d952e
record_format	dspace
spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:2c3f1979273242afb62e4cd9794d952e2021-11-25T06:16:05ZTelephone triage service data for detection of influenza-like illness.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0005260https://doaj.org/article/2c3f1979273242afb62e4cd9794d952e2009-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/19381342/pdf/?tool=EBIhttps://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203<h4>Background</h4>Surveillance for influenza and influenza-like illness (ILI) is important for guiding public health prevention programs to mitigate the morbidity and mortality caused by influenza, including pandemic influenza. Nontraditional sources of data for influenza and ILI surveillance are of interest to public health authorities if their validity can be established.<h4>Methods/principal findings</h4>National telephone triage call data were collected through automated means for purposes of syndromic surveillance. For the 17 states with at least 500,000 inhabitants eligible to use the telephone triage services, call volume for respiratory syndrome was compared to CDC weekly number of influenza isolates and percentage of visits to sentinel providers for ILI. The degree to which the call data were correlated with either CDC viral isolates or sentinel provider percentage ILI data was highly variable among states.<h4>Conclusions</h4>Telephone triage data in the U.S. are patchy in coverage and therefore not a reliable source of ILI surveillance data on a national scale. However, in states displaying a higher correlation between the call data and the CDC data, call data may be useful as an adjunct to state-level surveillance data, for example at times when sentinel surveillance is not in operation or in areas where sentinel provider coverage is considered insufficient. Sufficient population coverage, a specific ILI syndrome definition, and the use of a threshold of percentage of calls that are for ILI would likely improve the utility of such data for ILI surveillance purposes.W Katherine YihKathryn S TeatesAllyson AbramsKen KleinmanMartin KulldorffRobert PinnerRobert HarmonStanley WangRichard PlattPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 4, Iss 4, p e5260 (2009)
institution	DOAJ
collection	DOAJ
language	EN
topic	Medicine R Science Q
spellingShingle	Medicine R Science Q W Katherine Yih Kathryn S Teates Allyson Abrams Ken Kleinman Martin Kulldorff Robert Pinner Robert Harmon Stanley Wang Richard Platt Telephone triage service data for detection of influenza-like illness.
description	<h4>Background</h4>Surveillance for influenza and influenza-like illness (ILI) is important for guiding public health prevention programs to mitigate the morbidity and mortality caused by influenza, including pandemic influenza. Nontraditional sources of data for influenza and ILI surveillance are of interest to public health authorities if their validity can be established.<h4>Methods/principal findings</h4>National telephone triage call data were collected through automated means for purposes of syndromic surveillance. For the 17 states with at least 500,000 inhabitants eligible to use the telephone triage services, call volume for respiratory syndrome was compared to CDC weekly number of influenza isolates and percentage of visits to sentinel providers for ILI. The degree to which the call data were correlated with either CDC viral isolates or sentinel provider percentage ILI data was highly variable among states.<h4>Conclusions</h4>Telephone triage data in the U.S. are patchy in coverage and therefore not a reliable source of ILI surveillance data on a national scale. However, in states displaying a higher correlation between the call data and the CDC data, call data may be useful as an adjunct to state-level surveillance data, for example at times when sentinel surveillance is not in operation or in areas where sentinel provider coverage is considered insufficient. Sufficient population coverage, a specific ILI syndrome definition, and the use of a threshold of percentage of calls that are for ILI would likely improve the utility of such data for ILI surveillance purposes.
format	article
author	W Katherine Yih Kathryn S Teates Allyson Abrams Ken Kleinman Martin Kulldorff Robert Pinner Robert Harmon Stanley Wang Richard Platt
author_facet	W Katherine Yih Kathryn S Teates Allyson Abrams Ken Kleinman Martin Kulldorff Robert Pinner Robert Harmon Stanley Wang Richard Platt
author_sort	W Katherine Yih
title	Telephone triage service data for detection of influenza-like illness.
title_short	Telephone triage service data for detection of influenza-like illness.
title_full	Telephone triage service data for detection of influenza-like illness.
title_fullStr	Telephone triage service data for detection of influenza-like illness.
title_full_unstemmed	Telephone triage service data for detection of influenza-like illness.
title_sort	telephone triage service data for detection of influenza-like illness.
publisher	Public Library of Science (PLoS)
publishDate	2009
url	https://doaj.org/article/2c3f1979273242afb62e4cd9794d952e
work_keys_str_mv	AT wkatherineyih telephonetriageservicedatafordetectionofinfluenzalikeillness AT kathrynsteates telephonetriageservicedatafordetectionofinfluenzalikeillness AT allysonabrams telephonetriageservicedatafordetectionofinfluenzalikeillness AT kenkleinman telephonetriageservicedatafordetectionofinfluenzalikeillness AT martinkulldorff telephonetriageservicedatafordetectionofinfluenzalikeillness AT robertpinner telephonetriageservicedatafordetectionofinfluenzalikeillness AT robertharmon telephonetriageservicedatafordetectionofinfluenzalikeillness AT stanleywang telephonetriageservicedatafordetectionofinfluenzalikeillness AT richardplatt telephonetriageservicedatafordetectionofinfluenzalikeillness
_version_	1718413972750729216

Telephone triage service data for detection of influenza-like illness.

Ejemplares similares