Health Care Professionals' Evidence-Based Medicine Internet Searches Closely Mimic the Known Seasonal Variation of Lyme Borreliosis: A Register-Based Study.

Samuli Pesälä Mikko J Virtanen Jussi Sane Jukkapekka Jousimaa Outi Lyytikäinen Satu Murtopuro Pekka Mustonen Minna Kaila Otto M Helve

Published in: JMIR public health and surveillance (2017)

Health care professionals' Internet searches from EBM databases coincide with national register diagnoses of LB. PD searches showed a clear seasonal variation. In addition, notable regional differences were present in both registers. However, physicians' Internet medical searches should be considered as a supplementary source of information for disease surveillance.

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quality improvement
machine learning
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artificial intelligence
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