Healthcare professionals' queries on oseltamivir and influenza in Finland 2011-2016-Can we detect influenza epidemics with specific online searches?

Samuli Pesälä Mikko J Virtanen Milla Mukka Kimi Ylilammi Pekka Mustonen Minna Kaila Otto M Helve

Published in: Influenza and other respiratory viruses (2019)

HCPs' queries on oseltamivir and influenza from Internet medical databases correlated with register diagnoses of influenza. Therefore, they should be considered as a supplementary source of information for disease surveillance when detecting influenza epidemics.

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public health
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machine learning
deep learning