School-based surveillance of acute infectious disease in children: a systematic review

Donaldson, A. L.; Hardstaff, J. L.; Harris, J. P.; Vivancos, R.; O’Brien, S. J.

doi:10.1186/s12879-021-06444-6

BMC Infectious Diseases

Table 1 Description of included studies

From: School-based surveillance of acute infectious disease in children: a systematic review

Author	Year of Publication	Country	Organism/ syndrome	Prospective or retrospective	School ages	Sample size	Specificity of absence	Frequency of data submissions
Aldridge et al [51]	2016	UK	Seasonal influenza	Prospective	11-16 yrs	27 schools	Medical ^a	Weekly
Besculides et al [39]	2005	USA	Seasonal influenza	Retrospective	5-18 yrs	1160 schools	All cause	Daily
Bollaerts et al. [21]	2010	Belgium	Pandemic influenza	Prospective	3-18 yrs	~ 1 million pupils	Illness	Weekly
Chu et al [52]	2013	Canada	Pandemic influenza	Retrospective	4-14 yrs	8 PHUs ^b	Variable	Not specified
Crawford et al [40]	2011	USA	Pandemic influenza	Prospective	5-12 yrs	80 schools	All cause	Daily
Kara et al [43]	2012	UK	Pandemic influenza	Retrospective	4-18 yrs	373 schools	Illness	Weekly
Kightlinger et al [44]	2013	USA	Pandemic influenza	Prospective	5-18 yrs	187 schools	Illness	Weekly
Kom Mogto et al [49]	2012	Canada	Pandemic influenza	Prospective	6-17 yrs	3432 schools	Syndrome-specific	Daily
Lenaway et al [45]	1995	USA	Seasonal influenza	Prospective	5-18 yrs	44 schools	Illness	Weekly
Ma et al [46]	2015	Sweden	Seasonal influenza	Retrospective	6-16 yrs. ^c	500 schools	Illness	Not specified
Mann et al [41]	2011	USA	Pandemic influenza	Prospective	5-18 yrs	349 schools	All cause	Daily
Mook et al [47]	2007	UK	Seasonal influenza	Prospective	4-16 yrs	11 schools	Illness	Daily
Schmidt et al [48]	2010	UK	Seasonal influenza	Retrospective	5-11 yrs	6 schools	Illness	Not specified
Suzue et al [50]	2012	Japan	Pandemic influenza	Retrospective	3-18 yrs	142 schools	Syndrome specific	Daily
Williams et al. [42]	2013	USA	Pandemic influenza	Prospective	5-17 yrs	216 schools	All cause + syndrome specific	Weekly

^a Medical absences include illness absence and absence to attend medical appointments
^b Public Health Units (PHUs) varied in size and were broadly divided into large PHUs (population > 400,000) and small PHUs (population ≤ 400,000). Each PHU had a custom surveillance system to measure school absenteeism, collecting data on all cause absenteeism (8 PHUs), illness absenteeism (1 PHU) and respiratory illness absence (1 PHU) from schools within their area
^c Not clearly specified. The school ages noted are for compulsory education in the country of study

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