Detection of Pediatric Respiratory and Diarrheal Outbreaks from Sales of Over-the-counter Electrolyte Products

Hogan, William R.; Tsui, Fu-Chiang; Иванов, О. А.; Gesteland, Per H.; Grannis, Shaun; Overhage, J. Marc; Robinson, Joelle

doi:10.1197/jamia.m1377

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“…Our findings confirm previous studies that demonstrate the utility of using drug sales, and the timing of drug sales, compared to other indicators ( 8 , 15 ), as a proxy indicator of ILI activity. Several arguments support the need to consider syndromic surveillance based on drug-sales data.…”

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Medication Sales and Syndromic Surveillance, France

Vergu

Grais

Sarter

et al. 2006

Emerg. Infect. Dis.

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Medication Sales and Syndromic Surveillance, France

Vergu

Grais

Sarter

et al. 2006

Emerg. Infect. Dis.

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“…However, we would argue that attendees at the paediatric outpatients' clinic are a reasonable control group in this context. Hospital attendances with diarrhoea are strongly temporally correlated with community diarrhoeal illness rates (Hogan et al 2003). As such our study does suggest that the use of the LifeStrawY can lead to a reduction in diarrhoeal disease, as least in the short term.…”

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A study of the use and impacts of LifeStraw™ in a settlement camp in southern Gezira, Sudan

Elsanousi

Abdelrahman

Elshiekh

et al. 2009

Journal of Water and Health

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A total of 647 eligible subjects participated in the study. Two week incidence of diarrhoeal rates were estimated by a community survey some four months before and again four months after provision of the LifeStrawY. In addition counts were kept of people attending at the community clinic with diarrhoea. Compliance rates were good with 86.5% of people saying they always used it and only 3.7% saying they had never used it. In a before implementation survey 15.3% of participants reported diarrhoea in the previous 2 weeks compared with only 2.3% in a survey after implementation. Similarly 58 people presented to the clinic as a new case of diarrhoea in the four months before compared with only six in the four months after implementation. When compared with diarrhoeal attendances at the regional hospital, this was a statistically significant decline in attendances ( p , 0.0001). The LifeStrawY is likely to find a role as an adjunct to water quality interventions aimed at the home. However, more research is needed to assess the long-term impact and uptake of these devices before their definitive value can be assessed.

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“…Investigators have suggested several supplemental approaches for influenza surveillance, at prediagnosis and diagnosis stages. Prediagnosis approaches mainly include the analysis of information collected before specific influenza-related diagnoses are made, including analyses of telephone triage calls [16], purchases of over-the-counter medications for respiratory diseases [17][18][19][20], and school absenteeism [21]. In contrast, diagnosis-level approaches attempt to gather clinical data from emergency department visits [22][23][24] or microbiologic sources in as close to real-time as possible.…”

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Using Internet Searches for Influenza Surveillance

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The Internet is an important source of health information. Thus, the frequency of Internet searches may provide information regarding infectious disease activity. As an example, we examined the relationship between searches for influenza and actual influenza occurrence. Using search queries from the Yahoo! search engine ( http://search.yahoo.com ) from March 2004 through May 2008, we counted daily unique queries originating in the United States that contained influenza-related search terms. Counts were divided by the total number of searches, and the resulting daily fraction of searches was averaged over the week. We estimated linear models, using searches with 1-10-week lead times as explanatory variables to predict the percentage of cultures positive for influenza and deaths attributable to pneumonia and influenza in the United States. With use of the frequency of searches, our models predicted an increase in cultures positive for influenza 1-3 weeks in advance of when they occurred (P < .001), and similar models predicted an increase in mortality attributable to pneumonia and influenza up to 5 weeks in advance (P < .001). Search-term surveillance may provide an additional tool for disease surveillance.

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Detection of Pediatric Respiratory and Diarrheal Outbreaks from Sales of Over-the-counter Electrolyte Products

Abstract: Sales of electrolyte products contain a signal of outbreaks of respiratory and diarrheal diseases in children and usually are an earlier signal than hospital diagnoses.

Cited by 65 publications

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Medication Sales and Syndromic Surveillance, France

Medication Sales and Syndromic Surveillance, France

A study of the use and impacts of LifeStraw™ in a settlement camp in southern Gezira, Sudan

Using Internet Searches for Influenza Surveillance

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