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

• Autor(a) principal: Cantarelli, Pietro
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Outros Autores: Debin, Marion, Turbelin, Clément, Poletto, Chiara, Blanchon, Thierry, Falchi, Alessandra, Hanslik, Thomas, Bonmarin, Isabelle, Levy-Bruhl, Daniel, Micheletti, Alessandra, Paolotti, Daniela, Vespignani, Alessandro, Edmunds, John, Eames, Ken, Smallenburg, Ronald, Koppeschaar, Carl, Franco, Ana O, Faustino, Vitor, Carnahan, AnnaSara, Rehn, Moa, Colizza, Vittoria
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.7/324
• topic: Influenza; Surveillance; Representativeness; Internet data collection; Participation bias; Selection bias

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.