Healthcare Utilization Survey in the Hybrid Model of the Surveillance for Enteric Fever in India (SEFI) Study: Processes, Monitoring, Results, and Challenges.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Lack of reliable data in India drove the "Surveillance of Enteric Fever in India" (SEFI) concept. Hybrid surveillance, combining facility-based surveillance for the crude incidence, and a community-based healthcare utilization survey (HCUS) to calculate the factor needed to arrive at the adjusted incidence, was used in 6 sites. The HCUS aimed to determine the percentage of utilization of study facilities by the catchment population for hospitalizations due to febrile illness.

Methods

Population proportional to size sampling and systematic random sampling, in 2 stages, were used to survey 5000 households per site. Healthcare utilization was assessed.

Results

Febrile illness accounted for 20% of admissions among 137 990 individuals from 30 308 households. Onl

SUBMITTER: Raju R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8914874 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature