Using nurse hot line calls for disease surveillance.

Rodman, J. S.; Frost, F.; Jakubowski, W.

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Using nurse hot line calls for disease surveillance.

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1998 Apr-Jun
By Rodman, J. S. ; Frost, F. ; Jakubowski, W.

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Emerg Infect Dis
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Rodman, J. S. ; Frost, F. ; Jakubowski, W.
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Nurse hot line calls are a potential source of public health surveillance data and may help identify epidemics of emerging infectious diseases. In this study, nurse hot line data from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, showed more than a 17-fold increase in calls for diarrhea during the 1993 Milwaukee cryptosporidiosis outbreak. Moreover, consistent patterns of seasonal variation in diarrhea- and vomiting-related calls were detected from the Baltimore, Maryland, and Albuquerque, New Mexico, hot lines. Analysis of nurse hot line calls may provide an inexpensive and timely method for improving disease surveillance.
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Cryptosporidiosis Diarrhea Disease Outbreaks Hotlines Humans Nurses Population Surveillance Seasons
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Emerg Infect Dis. 4(2):329-332.
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Journal Article
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Maryland ; New Mexico ; Wisconsin
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4
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2
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Emerging Infectious Diseases
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