Severe acute respiratory infections, the missing link in the surveillance pyramid
Recruiting
- Conditions
- severe acute respiratory infection, surveillance, influenza, hospital admission, ernstige acute luchtweg infectie, ziekenhuisopname, SARI
- Registration Number
- NL-OMON28164
- Lead Sponsor
- ational Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM)
- Brief Summary
Marbus SD et al. Ernstige acute luchtweginfecties: de ontbrekende bouwsteen in de surveillance piramide. Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Medische Microbiologie 2016; 1: 52-56
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 0
Inclusion Criteria
A SARI patient will be defined as a hospitalised person with:
Exclusion Criteria
The symptoms of onset should not have started (or clearly worsened, if chronic) more than 7 days at admission
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational non invasive
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method The development and establishment of a sustainable SARI surveillance system that, when this is proven feasible, will be extended to other hospitals from the year 2019 onward. The end result is an integrated respiratory surveillance system covering the full spectrum of respiratory infections, which provides input for (inter)national public administrations and is used for policy decisions.<br /><br>The planned products are:<br /><br>•Protocol for the implementation of a potential nationwide sustainable continuous SARI surveillance; <br /><br>•Weekly publication of the results of fully integrated respiratory surveillance system on RIVM website.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method •Seasonal influenza vaccine effectiveness against influenza laboratory confirmed SARI hospitalisation among patient 65 years of age and above.<br /><br>•Data used for pooling with 22 hospitals in other European countries to obtain robust data on influenza vaccine effectiveness against severe outcomes.<br /><br>•Amount of SARI patients attributable to influenza and/or other causative respiratory pathogens per influenza season. <br /><br>•The disease burden of influenza on different health care levels.<br>