Using Nurse Hot Line Calls for Disease Surveillance
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 cryptospor...
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| description | 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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| spelling | doaj.art-ea503143641146c2a390d9004f0fd52b2022-12-22T01:32:12ZengCenters for Disease Control and PreventionEmerging Infectious Diseases1080-60401080-60591998-06-014232933210.3201/eid0402.980226Using Nurse Hot Line Calls for Disease SurveillanceJane Somsel RodmanFloyd FrostWalter JakubowskiNurse 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.https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/4/2/98-0226_articleUnited States |
| spellingShingle | Jane Somsel Rodman Floyd Frost Walter Jakubowski Using Nurse Hot Line Calls for Disease Surveillance Emerging Infectious Diseases United States |
| title | Using Nurse Hot Line Calls for Disease Surveillance |
| title_full | Using Nurse Hot Line Calls for Disease Surveillance |
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| title_short | Using Nurse Hot Line Calls for Disease Surveillance |
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