Fever in Children - an Assessment of Validity by a Shewhart Model in a Syndromic Surveillance System in China

Since April 2012, an integrated syndromic surveillance system in rural China (ISSC) has been established in health facilities in two rural counties of Jiangxi Province, China [1]. The objective of ISSC is to integrate syndromic surveillance with conventional case report system for the early detection of infectious disease outbreak in rural China.

Objective

To evaluate the validity of a syndromic surveillance system in health facilities of rural China, signals generated by Shewhart charts from the reported febrile patients in children were compared with that from the common infectious disease patients reported to the conventional case report system (CISDCP, China Information System for Disease Control and Prevention).