Question

Please answer the following questions below.

1. Briefly discuss the hospital surveillance system that exists in the Philippines,  and how SARI surveillance can be incorporated into an existing system or a new system in order to create a sustainable program.

2. Briefly discuss the flow of information within the SARI surveillance system in the Philippines. If your country has yet to establish a SARI surveillance system, discuss how you envision the information flow will be.

Answer 1

1. surveillance in phillippines is phillipines integrated disease surveillance response (pidsr) performed on case basis namely intensive case based and line list case based surveillance. identified cases are categorised as suspected, confirmed and probable case.

sari is severe acute respiratory infection surveillance which focus on the detection of suspected, confirmed and probable cases of sari. this includes indicator based, event based and sentinel sureveillance.

the process of selecting the site of surveillance depends on certain factors:

• representation of population
• feasible to perform surveillance
• sustainable surveillance system
• expansion of the site
• severity of disease burden

2. information flow process of sari in philippines

• identify cases that meet sari guidelines
• collect specimens of selected cases
• use appropriate ppe while specimen collection
• fill the lab report form to sent specimen
• ship specimen to lab
• enter lab results in data sheet
• sent report to ministry of health frequently
• sent report to the statistics office

envision the sari in own system:

• the information flow followed in the sari of philippines is well integrated, so it would be best if it could be integrated into own country system.
• the delegation of tasks related to surveillance must be integrated and categorized into local, community, district, state and national level so as to collect a survey data that is more reliable and valid.

• identify cases that meet sari guidelines
• collect specimens of selected cases
• use appropriate ppe while specimen collection
• fill the lab report form to sent specimen
• ship specimen to lab
• enter lab results in data sheet
• sent report to ministry of health frequently
• sent report to the statistics office