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...
Main Authors: | Jane Somsel Rodman, Floyd Frost, Walter Jakubowski |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
1998-06-01
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Series: | Emerging Infectious Diseases |
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Online Access: | https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/4/2/98-0226_article |
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