TY - JOUR AU - Peppa, Maria AU - John Edmunds, W. AU - Funk, Sebastian PY - 2017 DA - 2017/03/31 TI - Disease severity determines health-seeking behaviour amongst individuals with influenza-like illness in an internet-based cohort JO - BMC Infectious Diseases SP - 238 VL - 17 IS - 1 AB - Seasonal influenza epidemics place considerable strain on health services. Robust systems of surveillance are therefore required to ensure preparedness. Sentinel surveillance does not accurately capture the community burden of epidemics as it misses cases that do not present to health services. In this study, Flusurvey (an internet-based community surveillance tool) was used to examine how severity of disease influences health-seeking behaviour in the UK. SN - 1471-2334 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-017-2337-5 DO - 10.1186/s12879-017-2337-5 ID - Peppa2017 ER -