Excess cases of influenza suggest an earlier start to the coronavirus epidemic in Spain than official figures tell us: an analysis of primary care electronic medical …

E Coma, N Mora, A Prats-Uribe, F Fina… - Medrxiv, 2020 - medrxiv.org
Objectives There is uncertainty about when the first cases of COVID-19 appeared in Spain,
as asymptomatic patients can transmit the virus. We aimed to determine whether influenza …

Excess cases of influenza and the coronavirus epidemic in Catalonia: a time-series analysis of primary-care electronic medical records covering over 6 million people

EC Redon, N Mora, A Prats-Uribe, FF Avilés… - BMJ open, 2020 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objectives There is uncertainty about when the first cases of COVID-19 appeared in Spain.
We aimed to determine whether influenza diagnoses masked early COVID-19 cases and …

Divergences on expected pneumonia cases during the COVID-19 epidemic in Catalonia: a time-series analysis of primary care electronic health records covering …

E Coma, L Méndez-Boo, N Mora, C Guiriguet… - BMC infectious …, 2021 - Springer
Background Pneumonia is one of the complications of COVID-19. Primary care electronic
health records (EHR) have shown the utility as a surveillance system. We therefore analyse …

Trend of pneumonia diagnosis in emergency departments as a COVID-19 surveillance system: a time series study

R Murtas, A Decarli, AG Russo - BMJ open, 2021 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objective In Italy, the first diagnosis of COVID-19 was confirmed on 20 February 2020 in the
Lombardy region. Given the rapid spread of the infection in the population, it was suggested …

A comparison of coronavirus disease 2019 and seasonal influenza surveillance in five European countries: France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom

T Rigoine de Fougerolles… - Influenza and Other …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Background In response to the coronavirus disease (COVID‐19) outbreak that unfolded
across Europe in 2020, the World Health Organisation (WHO) called for repurposing existing …

[HTML][HTML] Global influenza surveillance in times of COVID-19: Robbing Peter to pay Paul?

I Sanz-Muñoz… - Revista clinica …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The surveillance of influenza and other respiratory viruses is being relegated to the sidelines
by the prominence of the COVID-19 pandemic. We were inspired to write this additional …

Influenza activity in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR) in 2020–2021 amidst the COVID-19 pandemic

H Abou El Naja, S Tempia, A Barakat, A Elkholy… - BMJ Global …, 2022 - gh.bmj.com
Introduction A global reduction in influenza virus activity during the COVID-19 pandemic has
been observed, including in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR). However, these …

Primary care during COVID-19 pandemic-a survey to establish clinical needs and lessons learned in infectious respiratory diseases in Spain

M Linares, LS Larregola, PGG de Yébenes… - BMC Primary Care, 2023 - Springer
Background The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed gaps and areas of need in health care
systems. General practitioners (GPs) play a crucial role in the response to COVID-19 and …

Impact of influenza related hospitalization in Spain: characteristics and risk factor of mortality during five influenza seasons (2016 to 2021)

JM Ramos-Rincón, H Pinargote-Celorio… - Frontiers in Public …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Background Estimating the global influenza burden in terms of hospitalization and death is
important for optimizing prevention policies. Identifying risk factors for mortality allows for the …

Retrospective detection of SARS-CoV-2 in hospitalized patients with influenza-like illness

X Yu, D Wei, Y Chen, D Zhang… - Emerging Microbes & …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Since the first report of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in late December 2019, the
pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has …