Abstract

The national sentinel surveillance (NSS) system in Vietnam captures only cases presenting to sentinel sites, limiting our understanding of burden of disease in the community

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  • The national sentinel surveillance (NSS) system in Vietnam captures only cases presenting to sentinel sites, limiting our understanding of burden of disease in the community

  • We identified 582 (9%, 95% CI: 6-11) episodes of self-reported influenza-like illness (ILI) and 121 (2%, 95% CI: 1-2) episodes of self-reported severe acute respiratory infection (SARI) cases

  • Less than 1/5 of self-reported ILI cases came to a national ILI NSS site

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The national sentinel surveillance (NSS) system in Vietnam captures only cases presenting to sentinel sites, limiting our understanding of burden of disease in the community. Healthcare seeking behavior for respiratory illness in a northern province of Vietnam From 3rd International Conference on Prevention and Infection Control (ICPIC 2015) Geneva, Switzerland. Introduction The national sentinel surveillance (NSS) system in Vietnam captures only cases presenting to sentinel sites, limiting our understanding of burden of disease in the community

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