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Coughing, sneezing, and aching online: Twitter and the volume of influenza-like illness in a pediatric hospital

This study investigates the relation of the incidence of georeferenced tweets related to respiratory illness to the incidence of influenza-like illness (ILI) in the emergency department (ED) and urgent care clinics (UCCs) of a large pediatric hospital. We collected (1) tweets in English originating...

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Autores principales: Hartley, David M., Giannini, Courtney M., Wilson, Stephanie, Frieder, Ophir, Margolis, Peter A., Kotagal, Uma R., White, Denise L., Connelly, Beverly L., Wheeler, Derek S., Tadesse, Dawit G., Macaluso, Maurizio
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5533314/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28753678
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0182008
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author Hartley, David M.
Giannini, Courtney M.
Wilson, Stephanie
Frieder, Ophir
Margolis, Peter A.
Kotagal, Uma R.
White, Denise L.
Connelly, Beverly L.
Wheeler, Derek S.
Tadesse, Dawit G.
Macaluso, Maurizio
author_facet Hartley, David M.
Giannini, Courtney M.
Wilson, Stephanie
Frieder, Ophir
Margolis, Peter A.
Kotagal, Uma R.
White, Denise L.
Connelly, Beverly L.
Wheeler, Derek S.
Tadesse, Dawit G.
Macaluso, Maurizio
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description This study investigates the relation of the incidence of georeferenced tweets related to respiratory illness to the incidence of influenza-like illness (ILI) in the emergency department (ED) and urgent care clinics (UCCs) of a large pediatric hospital. We collected (1) tweets in English originating in our hospital’s primary service area between 11/1/2014 and 5/1/2015 and containing one or more specific terms related to respiratory illness and (2) the daily number of patients presenting to our hospital’s EDs and UCCs with ILI, as captured by ICD-9 codes. A Support Vector Machine classifier was applied to the set of tweets to remove those unlikely to be related to ILI. Time series of the pooled set of remaining tweets involving any term, of tweets involving individual terms, and of the ICD-9 data were constructed, and temporal cross-correlation between the social media and clinical data was computed. A statistically significant correlation (Spearman ρ = 0.23) between tweets involving the term flu and ED and UCC volume related to ILI 11 days in the future was observed. Tweets involving the terms coughing (Spearman ρ = 0.24) and headache (Spearman ρ = 0.19) individually were also significantly correlated to ILI-related clinical volume four and two days in the future, respectively. In the 2014–2015 cold and flu season, the incidence of local tweets containing the terms flu, coughing, and headache were early indicators of the incidence of ILI-related cases presenting to EDs and UCCs at our children’s hospital.
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spelling pubmed-55333142017-08-07 Coughing, sneezing, and aching online: Twitter and the volume of influenza-like illness in a pediatric hospital Hartley, David M. Giannini, Courtney M. Wilson, Stephanie Frieder, Ophir Margolis, Peter A. Kotagal, Uma R. White, Denise L. Connelly, Beverly L. Wheeler, Derek S. Tadesse, Dawit G. Macaluso, Maurizio PLoS One Research Article This study investigates the relation of the incidence of georeferenced tweets related to respiratory illness to the incidence of influenza-like illness (ILI) in the emergency department (ED) and urgent care clinics (UCCs) of a large pediatric hospital. We collected (1) tweets in English originating in our hospital’s primary service area between 11/1/2014 and 5/1/2015 and containing one or more specific terms related to respiratory illness and (2) the daily number of patients presenting to our hospital’s EDs and UCCs with ILI, as captured by ICD-9 codes. A Support Vector Machine classifier was applied to the set of tweets to remove those unlikely to be related to ILI. Time series of the pooled set of remaining tweets involving any term, of tweets involving individual terms, and of the ICD-9 data were constructed, and temporal cross-correlation between the social media and clinical data was computed. A statistically significant correlation (Spearman ρ = 0.23) between tweets involving the term flu and ED and UCC volume related to ILI 11 days in the future was observed. Tweets involving the terms coughing (Spearman ρ = 0.24) and headache (Spearman ρ = 0.19) individually were also significantly correlated to ILI-related clinical volume four and two days in the future, respectively. In the 2014–2015 cold and flu season, the incidence of local tweets containing the terms flu, coughing, and headache were early indicators of the incidence of ILI-related cases presenting to EDs and UCCs at our children’s hospital. Public Library of Science 2017-07-28 /pmc/articles/PMC5533314/ /pubmed/28753678 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0182008 Text en © 2017 Hartley et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Hartley, David M.
Giannini, Courtney M.
Wilson, Stephanie
Frieder, Ophir
Margolis, Peter A.
Kotagal, Uma R.
White, Denise L.
Connelly, Beverly L.
Wheeler, Derek S.
Tadesse, Dawit G.
Macaluso, Maurizio
Coughing, sneezing, and aching online: Twitter and the volume of influenza-like illness in a pediatric hospital
title Coughing, sneezing, and aching online: Twitter and the volume of influenza-like illness in a pediatric hospital
title_full Coughing, sneezing, and aching online: Twitter and the volume of influenza-like illness in a pediatric hospital
title_fullStr Coughing, sneezing, and aching online: Twitter and the volume of influenza-like illness in a pediatric hospital
title_full_unstemmed Coughing, sneezing, and aching online: Twitter and the volume of influenza-like illness in a pediatric hospital
title_short Coughing, sneezing, and aching online: Twitter and the volume of influenza-like illness in a pediatric hospital
title_sort coughing, sneezing, and aching online: twitter and the volume of influenza-like illness in a pediatric hospital
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5533314/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28753678
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0182008
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