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ArticleEmerging infectious diseases2015

The US Influenza Hospitalization Surveillance Network.

Sandra S Chaves, Ruth Lynfield, Mary Lou Lindegren, Joseph Bresee, Lyn Finelli

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Article in Emerging infectious diseases, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 63 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

63 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Sandra S Chaves
Ruth Lynfield
Mary Lou Lindegren
Joseph Bresee
Lyn Finelli

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In 2003, surveillance for influenza in hospitalized persons was added to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Emerging Infections Program network. This surveillance enabled monitoring of the severity of influenza seasons and provided a platform for addressing priority questions associated with influenza. For enhanced surveillance capacity during the 2009 influenza pandemic, new sites were added to this platform. The combined surveillance platform is called the Influenza Hospitalization Surveillance Network (FluSurv-NET). FluSurv-NET has helped to determine the risk for influenza-associated illness in various segments of the US population, define the severity of influenza seasons and the 2009 pandemic, and guide recommendations for treatment and vaccination programs.

Indexed as

Patient AdmissionPublic Health SurveillanceCommunicable Disease ControlCommunicable Diseases, EmergingHumansInfluenza, HumanUnited StatesEIPEmerging Infections ProgramFluSurv-NETInfluenzainfluenza hospitalizationspopulation-based surveillanceUS Influenza Hospitalization Surveillance Networkviruses

Identifiers

PMID26291121
PMCPMC4550140

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