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- Title
Physician surveillance of influenza: collaboration between primary care and public health.
- Authors
Price, David; Chan, David; Greaves, Nancy
- Abstract
<bold>Problem Addressed: </bold>Influenza-like illness (ILI) is a global and national concern. The surveillance of ILI requires collaborative efforts from many diverse settings, including primary care clinics.<bold>Objective Of Program: </bold>To develop a sustainable reporting mechanism that enables primary care practices to provide ILI surveillance information to public health (PH) and addresses the needs of primary care practices and PH.<bold>Program Description: </bold>An automated, electronic ILI reporting program that collects information on ILI activity directly from family physicians; the program is integrated with the practice's electronic medical record (EMR) system and therefore does not require physician initiation or disrupt physician workflow. Surveillance information is collected from a random sample of patient encounters using an automated pop-up screen that appears when exiting the patient's EMR. Weekly summary reports are transmitted electronically to PH.<bold>Conclusion: </bold>The EMR-integrated physician ILI reporting program is a simple and inexpensive way for family physicians to provide PH with important real-time, community-level disease surveillance information that is both complete and accurate. The program has been used in Hamilton, Ont, since 2004, which clearly demonstrates that it is a feasible and sustainable program in practice.
- Publication
Canadian Family Physician / Médecin de Famille Canadien, 2014, Vol 60, Issue 1, pe7
- ISSN
0008-350X
- Publication type
journal article