title: National Retail Data Monitor for public health surveillance.
abstract: The National Retail Data Monitor (NRDM) is a public health surveillance tool that collects and analyzes daily sales data for over-the-counter (OTC) health-care products. NRDM collects sales data for selected OTC health-care products in near real time from >15,000 retail stores and makes them available to public health officials. NRDM is one of the first examples of a national data utility for public health surveillance that collects, redistributes, and analyzes daily sales-volume data of selected health-care products, thereby reducing the effort for both data providers and health departments.
authors.affiliation: Real-Time Outbreak and Disease Surveillance Laboratory, University of Pittsburgh, Suite 500, Cellomics Building, 500 Technology Drive, Pittsburgh, PA 15219, USA. mmw@cbmi.pitt.edu
authors.forename: Michael M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Wagner
authors.forename: F C
authors.initials: FC
authors.lastname: Tsui
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Espino
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Hogan
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hutman
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hersh
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Neill
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Moore
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Parks
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Lewis
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Aller
mesh_terms: D004196:Disease Outbreaks / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006801:Humans; D004366:Nonprescription Drugs; D011159:Population Surveillance / Q000379:methods*; D040442:Public Health Informatics; D014481:United States
chemical_list: D004366:Nonprescription Drugs