id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-001470-hn288o97 Pivette, Mathilde Drug sales data analysis for outbreak detection of infectious diseases: a systematic literature review 2014-11-18 .txt text/plain 4423 260 50 CONCLUSIONS: Drug sales data analyses appear to be a useful tool for surveillance of gastrointestinal and respiratory disease, and OTC drugs have the potential for early outbreak detection. Published articles were searched for on electronic databases (Pubmed, Embase, Scopus, LILACS, African Index Medicus, Cochrane Library), using combinations of the following key words: ("surveillance" OR outbreak detection OR warning system) AND (overthe-counter OR "prescription drugs" OR pharmacy OR (pharmaceutical OR drug OR medication) sales). Articles excluded based on fulltext review (no drug sales data, no infectious disease, no outbreak detection) N= 85 Figure 1 Flow chart of study selection process in a systematic review of drug sales data analysis for syndromic surveillance of infectious diseases. Nineteen of the 27 studies were descriptive retrospective studies assessing the strength of the correlation between drug sales and reference surveillance data of the corresponding disease or evaluating outbreak-detection performance [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25] [26] [27] [28] [29] [30] . ./cache/cord-001470-hn288o97.txt ./txt/cord-001470-hn288o97.txt