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Description

Influenza surveillance data including sentinel surveillance, laboratory surveillance, influenza-like illness outbreak, hospital surveillance and severe influenza case during influenza season.
UPDATE FREQUENCY: WEEKLY

Usage

flu_surveillance(path = ".", keep = FALSE)

Arguments

path	path to save the file
keep	whether to keep the file after read

Format

A data frame with 32 variables.
* 'year': Year
* 'week': Week
* 'from': From (Date)
* 'to': To (Date)
* 'rate_ili_gopc': ILI consultation rate (per 1,000 consultations) - Sentinel general out-patient clinics (GOPC)
* 'rate_ili_gp': ILI consultation rate (per 1,000 consultations) - Sentinel GP
* 'n_inf_lab_surv_a_h1': Laboratory surveillance - No. of positive detections of seasonal influenza viruses - A(H1)
* 'n_inf_lab_surv_a_h3': Laboratory surveillance - No. of positive detections of seasonal influenza viruses - A(H3)
* 'n_inf_lab_surv_b': Laboratory surveillance - No. of positive detections of seasonal influenza viruses - B
* 'n_inf_lab_surv_c': Laboratory surveillance - No. of positive detections of seasonal influenza viruses - C
* 'n_inf_lab_surv_all_subtypes': Laboratory surveillance - No. of positive detections of seasonal influenza viruses - All subtypes
* 'pct_inf_lab_surv_a_h1': Laboratory surveillance - Positive% for influenza among all respiratory specimens - A(H1)
* 'pct_inf_lab_surv_a_h3': Laboratory surveillance - Positive% for influenza among all respiratory specimens - A(H3)
* 'pct_inf_lab_surv_b': Laboratory surveillance - Positive% for influenza among all respiratory specimens - B
* 'pct_inf_lab_surv_c': Laboratory surveillance - Positive% for influenza among all respiratory specimens - C
* 'pct_inf_lab_surv_all_subtypes': Laboratory surveillance - Positive% for influenza among all respiratory specimens - All subtypes
* 'n_ili_scl_inst': No. of ILI outbreaks in schools/institutions
* 'rate_inf_pub_hosp_0_5': Admission rates in public hospitals with principal diagnosis of influenza (per 10,000 people in the age group) - 0-5 years
* 'rate_inf_pub_hosp_6_11': Admission rates in public hospitals with principal diagnosis of influenza (per 10,000 people in the age group) - 6-11 years
* 'rate_inf_pub_hosp_12_17': Admission rates in public hospitals with principal diagnosis of influenza (per 10,000 people in the age group) - 12-17 years
* 'rate_inf_pub_hosp_18_49': Admission rates in public hospitals with principal diagnosis of influenza (per 10,000 people in the age group) - 18-49 years
* 'rate_inf_pub_hosp_50_64': Admission rates in public hospitals with principal diagnosis of influenza (per 10,000 people in the age group) - 50-64 years
* 'rate_inf_pub_hosp_65_abv': Admission rates in public hospitals with principal diagnosis of influenza (per 10,000 people in the age group) - 65 years or above
* 'rate_inf_pub_hosp_all': Admission rates in public hospitals with principal diagnosis of influenza (per 10,000 people in the age group) - All ages
* 'rate_ili_inf_aed_pub_hosp': ILI syndrome group in Accident & Emergency Department (AED) of public hospitals (per 1,000 coded cases)
* 'pct_fever_kg_ccc': Percentage of children at sentinel kindergartens/child care centres KG/CCC having fever
* 'pct_fever_rche': Percentage of residents at sentinel RCHE having fever
* 'rate_ili_consult_cmp': ILI consultation rate at sentinel Chinese medical practitioner (CMP) (per 1,000 consultations)
* 'n_svr_inf_weekly_0_17': Weekly number of severe influenza cases by age groups - 0-17 years
* 'n_svr_inf_weekly_18_49': Weekly number of severe influenza cases by age groups - 18-49 years
* 'n_svr_inf_weekly_50_64': Weekly number of severe influenza cases by age groups - 50-64 years
* 'n_svr_inf_weekly_65_abv': Weekly number of severe influenza cases by age groups - 65 years or above

Details

* For 'n_inf_lab_surv_c' and 'pct_inf_lab_surv_c', since week 7 of 2014 (week ending 10 Feb, 2014),
the Public Health Laboratory Services Branch has adopted new genetic tests
as the primary tests for various respiratory viruses including influenza C.
* For all 'n_svr_inf_weekly_', the surveillance system for severe influenza cases among
adult patients aged 18 years or above was only activated intermittently during influenza seasons before 2018.
* All data of the recent few weeks are provisional figures and subject to further revision.

Source

<https://data.gov.hk/en-data/dataset/hk-dh-chpsebcddr-flu-express>

XiangdongGu/hkdata documentation built on Aug. 3, 2019, 6:18 p.m.