The relationship between seasonal influenza and telephone triage for fever: A population-based study in Osaka, Japan.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Replacing traditional surveillance with syndromic surveillance is one of the major interests in public health. However, it is unclear whether the number of influenza patients is associated with the number of telephone triages in Japan.

Methods

This retrospective, observational study was conducted over the six-year period between January 2012 to December 2017. We used the dataset of a telephone triage service in Osaka, Japan and the data on influenza patients published from the Information Center of Infectious Disease in Osaka prefecture. Using a linear regression model, we calculated Spearman's rank-order coefficient and R2 of the regression model to assess the relationship between the number of telephone triages for fever and the number of influenza patients in O

SUBMITTER: Katayama Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7410252 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature