Surveillance for influenza using hospital discharge data may underestimate the burden of influenza-related hospitalization

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2012 Oct;33(10):1064-6. doi: 10.1086/667742.
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Publication types

  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Cost of Illness
  • Cross-Sectional Studies
  • Hospitalization / statistics & numerical data
  • Humans
  • Influenza, Human / diagnosis
  • Influenza, Human / epidemiology*
  • New Zealand
  • Patient Discharge / statistics & numerical data*
  • Population Surveillance / methods*
  • Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction
  • Retrospective Studies