Assessment of the Current Surveillance System for Human Leptospirosis in Ecuador by Decision Analytic Modeling.

ABSTRACT: Leptospirosis is a globally disseminated zoonotic disease with no national surveillance systems. On the other hand, surveillance is crucial for improving population health, and surveillance systems produce data that motivates action. Unfortunately, like many other countries, Ecuador put in place a monitoring system that has never been tested. The goal of this study was to use scenario tree modeling to assess the sensitivity of Ecuador's current national surveillance system to human leptospirosis as the basis for an economic assessment of the system. We created a decision-tree model to analyze the current system's sensitivity. The inputs were described as probabilities distributions, and the model assessed the program's sensitivity as an output. The model also considers the geographical and

SUBMITTER: Calero ML 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8927665 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature