Severe acute respiratory infections surveillance for early signals in the community

CONCLUSION: This observational study demonstrates that routinely collected data can be used for describing trends of ARI in secondary care and may be suitable for near real-time SARI surveillance. In most seasons, the incidence peaks for ARI in secondary care preceded the peaks in primary care and crude mortality with a considerable time-lag. It would be of great value to add microbiological test results to the incidence data to better explain the difference in time-lag between these surveillance systems.PMID:33380528

Source: The Netherlands Journal of Medicine - December 31, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: S D Marbus G H Groeneveld L van Asten W van der Hoek M M A de Lange G A Donker P M Schneeberger J T van Dissel A B van Gageldonk-Lafeber Source Type: research