TY - JOUR
T1 - The KIzSS network, a sentinel surveillance system for infectious diseases in day care centers: study protocol
AU - Sentinel Surveillance Network of Infectious Diseases in Child Day Care Centers (the KIzSS Network)
AU - Enserink, Remko
AU - Noel, Harold
AU - Friesema, Ingrid H M
AU - de Jager, Carolien M
AU - Kooistra-Smid, Anna M D
AU - Kortbeek, Laetitia M
AU - Duizer, Erwin
AU - van der Sande, Marianne
AU - Smit, Henriette A
AU - Pelt, Wilfrid van
N1 - FTX; DOAJ; (CC BY 2.0)
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - BACKGROUND: Day care-associated infectious diseases are widely recognized as a public health problem but rarely studied. Insights into their dynamics and their association with the day care setting are important for effective decision making in management of infectious disease control. This paper describes the purpose, design and potential of our national multi-center, day care-based sentinel surveillance network for infectious diseases (the KIzSS network). The aim of the KIzSS network is to acquire a long-term insight into the syndromic and microbiological aspects of day care-related infectious diseases and associated disease burden and to model these aspects with day care setting characteristics.METHODS/DESIGN: The KIzSS network applies a prospective cohort design, following day care centers rather than individual children or staff members over time. Data on infectious disease symptoms and related morbidity (children and staff), medical consumption, absenteeism and circulating enteric pathogens (children) are collected on a daily, weekly or monthly basis. Every two years, a survey is performed to assess the characteristics of participating day care centers.DISCUSSION: The KIzSS network offers a unique potential to study infectious disease dynamics in the day care setting over a sustained period of time. The created (bio)databases will help us to assess day care-related disease burden of infectious diseases among attending children and staff and their relation with the day care setting. This will support the much needed development of evidence-based and pragmatic guidelines for infectious disease control in day care centers.
AB - BACKGROUND: Day care-associated infectious diseases are widely recognized as a public health problem but rarely studied. Insights into their dynamics and their association with the day care setting are important for effective decision making in management of infectious disease control. This paper describes the purpose, design and potential of our national multi-center, day care-based sentinel surveillance network for infectious diseases (the KIzSS network). The aim of the KIzSS network is to acquire a long-term insight into the syndromic and microbiological aspects of day care-related infectious diseases and associated disease burden and to model these aspects with day care setting characteristics.METHODS/DESIGN: The KIzSS network applies a prospective cohort design, following day care centers rather than individual children or staff members over time. Data on infectious disease symptoms and related morbidity (children and staff), medical consumption, absenteeism and circulating enteric pathogens (children) are collected on a daily, weekly or monthly basis. Every two years, a survey is performed to assess the characteristics of participating day care centers.DISCUSSION: The KIzSS network offers a unique potential to study infectious disease dynamics in the day care setting over a sustained period of time. The created (bio)databases will help us to assess day care-related disease burden of infectious diseases among attending children and staff and their relation with the day care setting. This will support the much needed development of evidence-based and pragmatic guidelines for infectious disease control in day care centers.
KW - Child Day Care Centers/statistics & numerical data
KW - Child, Preschool
KW - Communicable Diseases/epidemiology
KW - Female
KW - Gastrointestinal Diseases/microbiology
KW - Humans
KW - Infant
KW - Infant, Newborn
KW - Male
KW - Prospective Studies
KW - Sentinel Surveillance
U2 - 10.1186/1471-2334-12-259
DO - 10.1186/1471-2334-12-259
M3 - A1: Web of Science-article
C2 - 23066727
SN - 1471-2334
VL - 12
JO - BMC Infectious Diseases
JF - BMC Infectious Diseases
M1 - 259
ER -