Influenzanet: Citizens Among 10 Countries Collaborating to Monitor Influenza in Europe.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The wide availability of the Internet and the growth of digital communication technologies have become an important tool for epidemiological studies and health surveillance. Influenzanet is a participatory surveillance system monitoring the incidence of influenza-like illness (ILI) in Europe since 2003. It is based on data provided by volunteers who self-report their symptoms via the Internet throughout the influenza season and currently involves 10 countries.

Objective

In this paper, we describe the Influenzanet system and provide an overview of results from several analyses that have been performed with the collected data, which include participant representativeness analyses, data validation (comparing ILI incidence rates between Influenzanet and sentinel medic

SUBMITTER: Koppeschaar CE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5627046 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature