Use of a Web Forum and an Online Questionnaire in the Detection and Investigation of an Outbreak

A campylobacteriosis outbreak investigation provides relevant examples of how two web-based technologies were used in an outbreak setting and potential reasons for their usefulness. A web forum aided in outbreak detection and provided contextual insights for hypothesis generation and questionnaire d...

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Autores principales: Stuart Chester, Tammy L., Taylor, Marsha, Sandhu, Jat, Forsting, Sara, Ellis, Andrea, Stirling, Rob, Galanis, Eleni
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Publicado: University of Illinois at Chicago Library 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3615775/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23569598
http://dx.doi.org/10.5210/ojphi.v3i1.3506
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Taylor, Marsha
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description A campylobacteriosis outbreak investigation provides relevant examples of how two web-based technologies were used in an outbreak setting and potential reasons for their usefulness. A web forum aided in outbreak detection and provided contextual insights for hypothesis generation and questionnaire development. An online questionnaire achieved a high response rate and enabled rapid preliminary data analysis that allowed for a targeted environmental investigation. The usefulness of these tools may in part be attributed to the existence of an internet savvy, close-knit community. Given the right population, public health officials should consider web-based technologies, including web fora and online questionnaires as valuable tools in public health investigations.
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spelling pubmed-36157752013-04-08 Use of a Web Forum and an Online Questionnaire in the Detection and Investigation of an Outbreak Stuart Chester, Tammy L. Taylor, Marsha Sandhu, Jat Forsting, Sara Ellis, Andrea Stirling, Rob Galanis, Eleni Online J Public Health Inform Articles A campylobacteriosis outbreak investigation provides relevant examples of how two web-based technologies were used in an outbreak setting and potential reasons for their usefulness. A web forum aided in outbreak detection and provided contextual insights for hypothesis generation and questionnaire development. An online questionnaire achieved a high response rate and enabled rapid preliminary data analysis that allowed for a targeted environmental investigation. The usefulness of these tools may in part be attributed to the existence of an internet savvy, close-knit community. Given the right population, public health officials should consider web-based technologies, including web fora and online questionnaires as valuable tools in public health investigations. University of Illinois at Chicago Library 2011-06-22 /pmc/articles/PMC3615775/ /pubmed/23569598 http://dx.doi.org/10.5210/ojphi.v3i1.3506 Text en ©2011 the author(s) http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/ojphi/about/submissions#copyrightNotice This is an Open Access article. Authors own copyright of their articles appearing in the Online Journal of Public Health Informatics. Readers may copy articles without permission of the copyright owner(s), as long as the author and OJPHI are acknowledged in the copy and the copy is used for educational, not-for-profit purposes.
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