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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...
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...
The representativeness of a European multi-center network for influenza-like-il...
Cantarelli, Pietro; Debin, Marion; Turbelin, Clément; Poletto, Chiara; Blanchon, Thierry; Falchi, Alessandra; Hanslik, Thomas; Bonmarin, IsabelleThe Internet is becoming more commonly used as a tool for disease surveillance. Similarly to other surveillance systems and to studies using online data collection, Internet-based surveillance will have biases in participation, affecting the generalizability of the results. Here we quantify the participation biases of Influenzanet, an ongoing European-wide network of Internet-based participatory surveillance sy...
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...