@article{Wells_J-2022_102037,
title = {Real-time surveillance of severe acute respiratory infections in Scottish hospitals: an electronic register-based approach, 2017–2022},
author = {Wells, J. and Young, J. and Harvey, C. and Mutch, H. and McPhail, D. and Young, N. and Wallace, L. and Ladbury, G. and Murray, J. and Evans, J.},
month = {oct},
year = {2022},
abstract = {ObjectivesThe COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the importance of routinesyndromic surveillanceof respiratory infections, specifically new cases of severe acute respiratory infection (SARI). This surveillance often relies on questionnaires carried out by research nurses or transcriptions of doctor's notes, but existing, routinely collected electronic healthcare data sets are increasingly being used for such surveillance. We investigated how patient diagnosis codes, recorded within such data sets, could be used to capture SARI trends in Scotland.},
pages = {5-11},
volume = {213},
journal = {Public Health},
publisher = {Elsevier},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2022.09.003},
}
