ArticleInfluenza and other respiratory viruses2018
Outpatient influenza antivirals in a distributed data network for influenza surveillance.
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- Patterns in Prescribing and Dispensing Influenza Antivirals Among Adults With Influenza Presenting to Urgent Care and Emergency Department Settings: VISION Network, 2023-2024.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2025Article
- Early Detection of the Start of the Influenza Epidemic Using Surveillance Systems in Catalonia (PREVIGrip Study).International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Concordance between the Clinical Diagnosis of Influenza in Primary Care and Epidemiological Surveillance Systems (PREVIGrip Study).International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- A COVID-19-ready public health surveillance system: The Food and Drug Administration's Sentinel System.Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety · 2021Review
- A statistical tool for comparing seasonal ILI surveillance data.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Outpatient influenza antivirals in a distributed data network for influenza surveillance.Influenza and other respiratory viruses · 2018Article
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Abstract
Electronic data collected from routine health care can be used for public health surveillance. To examine the Sentinel System, a distributed data network of health plans, as a source for influenza surveillance, we compared trends in outpatient prescription dispensings of influenza antivirals in Sentinel to trends in CDC's ILINet and NREVSS systems over five seasons. There were 2 102 885 dispensed prescriptions of oseltamivir capsules, 494 188 of oseltamivir powder, and 7955 of zanamivir. Across all seasons, the magnitude and timing of peaks in drug utilization were highly comparable to those in ILINet and NREVSS. Oseltamivir capsules and powder were well correlated with ILINet and NREVSS. This lays the foundation for further exploration of Sentinel's utility for influenza surveillance.
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