Estimating the Incidence of Acute Infectious Intestinal Disease in the Community in the UK: A Retrospective Telephone Survey.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To estimate the burden of intestinal infectious disease (IID) in the UK and determine whether disease burden estimations using a retrospective study design differ from those using a prospective study design.

Design/setting

A retrospective telephone survey undertaken in each of the four countries comprising the United Kingdom. Participants were randomly asked about illness either in the past 7 or 28 days.

Participants

14,813 individuals for all of whom we had a legible recording of their agreement to participate.

Outcomes

Self-reported IID, defined as loose stools or clinically significant vomiting lasting less than two weeks, in the absence of a known non-infectious cause.

Results

The rate of self-reported IID varied substantially depending on

SUBMITTER: Viviani L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4725772 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature