Geospatial epidemiology of hospitalized patients with a positive influenza assay: A nationwide study in Iran, 2016–2018

• Shahab MohammadEbrahimi,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Medical Informatics, School of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran, Student Research Committee, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran

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• Behzad Kiani ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: kiani.behzad@gmail.com (BK); arianm@mums.ac.ir (MA)

  Affiliation École de Santé Publique de L’Université de Montréal (ESPUM), Québec, Montréal, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8816-328X

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• Zahra Rahmatinejad,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Medical Informatics, School of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran

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• Stefan Baral,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Soheil Hashtarkhani,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Health Information Technology, Neyshabur University of Medical Sciences, Neyshabur, Iran

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• Mohammad Dehghan-Tezerjani,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran

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• Elahe Zare,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Cardiovascular Research Center, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran

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• Mahnaz Arian ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources

  * E-mail: kiani.behzad@gmail.com (BK); arianm@mums.ac.ir (MA)

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran

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• Fatemeh Kiani,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Health Information Technology and Management, School of Allied Medical Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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• Mohammad Mehdi Gouya,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Center for Communicable Disease Control, Ministry of Health and Medical Education, Tehran, Iran

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• Mohammad Nasr Dadras,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Center for Communicable Disease Control, Ministry of Health and Medical Education, Tehran, Iran

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• Mohammad Karamouzian

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Brown School of Public Health, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States of America, Centre on Drug Policy Evaluation, St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada, HIV/STI Surveillance Research Center, and WHO Collaborating Center for HIV Surveillance, Institute for Futures Studies in Health, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran

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