Evaluation of an Internet-based monitoring system for influenza-like illness in Sweden.

ABSTRACT: To complement traditional influenza surveillance with data on disease occurrence not only among care-seeking individuals, the Swedish Institute for Communicable Disease Control (SMI) has tested an Internet-based monitoring system (IMS) with self-recruited volunteers submitting weekly on-line reports about their health in the preceding week, upon weekly reminders. We evaluated IMS acceptability and to which extent participants represented the Swedish population. We also studied the agreement of data on influenza-like illness (ILI) occurrence from IMS with data from a previously evaluated population-based system (PBS) with an actively recruited random sample of the population who spontaneously report disease onsets in real-time via telephone/Internet, and with traditional general practitione

SUBMITTER: Rehn M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4019478 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature