A Method to Assess Seasonality of Urinary Tract Infections Based on Medication Sales and Google Trends

Rossignol, Louise; Pelat, Camille; Lambert, Bruno; Flahault, Antoine; Chartier‐Kastler, Emmanuel; Hanslik, Thomas

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0076020

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“…Furthermore, the "health" category was selected to evaluate health specific interest. In accordance to previously published studies, winter months were defined as December, January, February and March for the northern hemisphere, whereas June, July, August and September were assigned to the southern hemisphere [15][16][17]28]. The present study followed the checklist for use of GT in health care research by Nuti et al [21].…”

Section: Timeframementioning

confidence: 92%

Winter peaks in web-based public inquiry into epistaxis

Liu

Besser

Parzefall

et al. 2020

Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol

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Purpose Epistaxis represents the most frequent ear, nose, throat-related emergency symptom. Seasonal variation in epistaxis incidence, with peaks during winter months, is widely accepted, although the literature itself remains inconclusive. The objective of this study was to evaluate public inquiry into nose bleeding, by considering Google-based search query frequency on "Epistaxis"-related search terms and to assess possible seasonal variations globally. Results Graphical representation revealed seasonal variations with peaks during winter months in the majority of countries included. Subsequent cosinor analysis revealed these variations to be significant (all p < 0.001). Conclusion Public interest in seeking epistaxis-related information through the Internet displayed seasonal patterns in countries from both hemispheres, with the highest interest during winter months. Further studies exploring causality with environmental factors are warranted.Publisher's Note Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.

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Section: Timeframementioning

confidence: 92%

Winter peaks in web-based public inquiry into epistaxis

Liu

Besser

Parzefall

et al. 2020

Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol

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“…Google Trends has been extensively used for predicting infectious epidemics and outbreaks [35], studying patients attitudes towards their diseases or their compliance to treatment [36], in neurology [37][38][39][40], in psychiatry [40,41], in oncology [42,43], as well as in nephrology and urology [45][46][47], ophthalmology [48,49], gynecology [50], otolaryngology [51], cardiovascular [52,53] and bariatric surgery [52]. However, Google Trends has been used not only in the medical field within the framework of P6 medicine (a model of patient-centered medicine, in which the patient actively seeks for health-related information on the Internet) [54,55], but also for biological [56], economic and financial [57,58] disciplines.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Googling Insects as a New Trend in Cultural Entomology: An Italian Perspective

Luigi¹

2014

TOENTOJ

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Cultural entomology (CE) explores the interactions between the world of insects and mankind. Since the internet plays a major role in nowadays life, it would be of great interest to investigate the insects-related internet usage and activities. However, there are very few studies about this. For this reason, inspired by the seminal work carried out by the Japanese Takada, we decided to replicate his findings. We analyzed with Google Trends and with the wavelet power spectrum analysis (WPSA) the hit-search volumes of the most common insects. We found that the five most commonly searched insects are bees, butterflies, mosquitoes, ants and spiders which are arachnids, but are commonly believed to be insects. We found a seasonality for some insects, as confirmed by the WPSA, and with peaks related to the seasonal period in which the insects are most visible, while we could not detect any regularity or trend for other insects, which are not clearly related to any particular season. In addition, we proved that, at least in some cases, hit-search volumes were influenced by the media and that the degree of seasonal regularity as measured by the WPSA was variable. Thus, we have proven the robustness of previous finding, extending their validity also in another culture and another context. Therefore, rather than being confined to a specific culture, googling insects could be a universal behavior and attitude, even though with some cross-cultural differences. Further systematic research is needed to shed light on this topic.

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“…Seasonal patterns of genitourinary and neurological disease incidence are generally neglected and poorly researched. Urinary tract infections (UTI) often have summer peaks of incidence when looking for drug-related sales and Google searches [38], but information about ER admissions, clinic visits or even seasonality of other genitourinary diseases were not found. The scenario is the same for neurological diseases.…”

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confidence: 99%

Seasonality of ER Admissions in Northwestern Pennsylvania: A Cross-Sectional Study

Guimarães¹,

Dawson²

2016

OJEM

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Seasonality, in the context of emergency room (ER) admissions, can be described as the periodic incidence of disease, corresponding to seasons, or other pre-established calendar periods. Respiratory diseases, in general, show a seasonal pattern with incidence peak at the winter season, however research still presents a considerable amount of inconsistency. Incidence of cardiovascular diseases (CVD) is also very well linked to the cold season. Gastrointestinal, genitourinary and neurological diseases are poorly studied in regards their seasonal patterns. This study aimed to assess seasonality of the five categories of diseases-respiratory, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, genitourinary, and neurological-using data from a community hospital in northwestern PA. We analyzed 14 years (2000-2014) of data from the Meadville Medical Center (MMC) ER admissions. For each ER admission case, we had information about ICD-9 code, sex, insurance, race, age and date, time and year of admission. Statistical analyses were performed using SAS 9.4 University version software. We found significantly fewer cases of respiratory diseases in spring (OR = 0.757), summer (OR = 0.579), and fall (OR = 0.741), when comparing to the winter season; however, seasonal differences were not found for cardiovascular, genitourinary, and neurological diseases. The implications of these results will primarily be used to improve Meadville's public health policies for cold seasons, and more specifically, implement programs that prepare the ER to receive and treat respiratory cases more efficiently in the cold season.

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A Method to Assess Seasonality of Urinary Tract Infections Based on Medication Sales and Google Trends

Cited by 58 publications

References 24 publications

Winter peaks in web-based public inquiry into epistaxis

Winter peaks in web-based public inquiry into epistaxis

Googling Insects as a New Trend in Cultural Entomology: An Italian Perspective

Seasonality of ER Admissions in Northwestern Pennsylvania: A Cross-Sectional Study

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