Experiences Sharing on Hospital - Based Surveillance at Department of Community Medicine, SMVMCH, Puducherry, India.
Journal Title: National Journal of Research in Community Medicine - Year 2013, Vol 2, Issue 2
Abstract
Introduction: Passive Epidemiological Surveillance has been routinely done by our Epidemiological Unit of Department of Community Medicine (DCM). Medical interns posted in DCM pay daily evening visit to hospital wards and note the demographic and investigation details of selected infectious disease conditions. Control measures are expected to be initiated in local community of confirmed infectious disease patients by Post-graduates. Objective: To study the passive epidemiological surveillance data for the past two years (2010 and 2011). Material and Methods: Secondary data analysis of the passive epidemiological surveillance data from the registers maintained at the Department of Community Medicine, Sri Manakula Vinayagar Medical College and Hospital, Puducherry for the time period from 2010-2011. Analysis was done by using Epi_info (3.4.3 Version) software package. Results: The data information of 592 (2010) and 1295 (2011) infectious patients with complete records were preserved. In both the years, most of the cases had fever, followed by acute watery diarrhea. Notably, there were 147 (79.5%) and 273 (45.7%) confirmed enteric fever cases in year 2010 and 2011 respectively. Conclusion: Enteric fever cases were the most common reported condition. In response to this, a locality with high enteric fever cases was investigated and local community was educated.
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Anand Kumar V, Kalaiselvan G, Purushothaman V, Dongre AR
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