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Using Social Media to Perform Local Influenza Surveillance in an Inner-City Hospital: A Retrospective Observational Study

An article published in the JMIR Public Health Surveillance

Analyzed by Pratibha Kavishwar / Friday, May 29, 2015 0 1400 Article rating: No rating

From the article objective: "The objective of this study was to analyze the efficacy of flu surveillance from combining data from the websites Google Flu Trends and HealthTweets at the local level."

mFHAST Implications: Opportunity for using SMS as a means of gathering health surveillance data.

Using Social Media to Perform Local Influenza Surveillance in an Inner-City Hospital: A Retrospective Observational Study

An article published in the JMIR Public Health Surveillance

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