The representativeness of a European multi-center network for influenza-like-illness participatory surveillance

The Internet is becoming more commonly used as a tool for disease surveillance. Similarly to other surveillance systems and to studies using online data collection, Internet-based surveillance will have biases in participation, affecting the generalizability of the results. Here we quantify the participation biases of Influenzanet, an ongoing European-wide network of Internet-based participatory surveillance systems for influenza-like-illness.

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Influenza Surveillance Representativeness Internet data collection Participation bias Selection bias

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/10400.7/324

Editora

BioMed Central

DOI

10.1186/1471-2458-14-984

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CD - Artigos

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