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Unsupervised extraction of epidemic syndromes from participatory influenza surv...
Kalimeri, Kyriaki; Delfino, Matteo; Cattuto, Ciro; Perrotta, Daniela; Colizza, Vittoria; Guerrisi, Caroline; Turbelin, Clement; Duggan, JimAbstract: Seasonal influenza surveillance is usually carried out by sentinel general practitioners (GPs) who compile weekly reports based on the number of influenza-like illness (ILI) clinical cases observed among visited patients. This traditional practice for surveillance generally presents several issues, such as a delay of one week or more in releasing reports, population biases in the health-seeking behavi...
Influenzanet: citizens among 10 countries collaborating to monitor influenza in...
Koppeschaar, Carl E.; Colizza, Vittoria; Guerrisi, Caroline; Turbelin, Clément; Duggan, Jim; Edmunds, W John; Kjelsø, Charlotte; Mexia, RicardoBackground: The wide availability of the Internet and the growth of digital communication technologies have become an important tool for epidemiological studies and health surveillance. Influenzanet is a participatory surveillance system monitoring the incidence of influenza-like illness (ILI) in Europe since 2003. It is based on data provided by volunteers who self-report their symptoms via the Internet throug...
Participatory Syndromic Surveillance of Influenza in Europe
Guerrisi, Caroline; Turbelin, Clément; Blanchon, Thierry; Hanslik, Thomas; Bonmarin, Isabelle; Levy-Bruhl, Daniel; Perrotta, Daniela; Paolotti, DanielaThe growth of digital communication technologies for public health is offering an unconventional means to engage the general public in monitoring community health. Here we present Influenzanet, a participatory system for the syndromic surveillance of influenza-like illness (ILI) in Europe. Through standardized online surveys, the system collects detailed profile information and self-reported symptoms volunteere...
Association between Recruitment Methods and Attrition in Internet-Based Studies
Bajardi, Paolo; Paolotti, Daniela; Vespignani, Alessandro; Eames, Ken; Funk, Sebastian; Edmunds, W. John; Turbelin, Clement; Debin, MarionInternet-based systems for epidemiological studies have advantages over traditional approaches as they can potentially recruit and monitor a wider range of individuals in a relatively inexpensive fashion. We studied the association between communication strategies used for recruitment (offline, online, face-to-face) and follow-up participation in nine Internet-based cohorts: the Influenzanet network of platform...