Postpandemic Sentinel Surveillance of Respiratory Diseases in the Context of the World Health Organization Mosaic Framework: Protocol for a Development and Evaluation Study Involving the English Primary Care Network 2023-2024
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Published:2024-04-03
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Volume:10
Page:e52047
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ISSN:2369-2960
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Container-title:JMIR Public Health and Surveillance
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language:en
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Short-container-title:JMIR Public Health Surveill
Author:
Gu XinchunORCID, Watson ConallORCID, Agrawal UtkarshORCID, Whitaker HeatherORCID, Elson William H.ORCID, Anand SnehaORCID, Borrow RayORCID, Buckingham AnnaORCID, Button ElizabethORCID, Curtis LottieORCID, Dunn DominicORCID, Elliot Alex J.ORCID, Ferreira FilipaORCID, Goudie RosalindORCID, Hoang UyORCID, Hoschler KatjaORCID, Jamie GavinORCID, Kar DebasishORCID, Kele BeatrixORCID, Leston MeredithORCID, Linley EzraORCID, Macartney JackORCID, Marsden Gemma LORCID, Okusi CeciliaORCID, Parvizi OmidORCID, Quinot CatherineORCID, Sebastianpillai PraveenORCID, Sexton VanashreeORCID, Smith GillianORCID, Suli TimeaORCID, Thomas Nicholas P BORCID, Thompson CatherineORCID, Todkill DanielORCID, Wimalaratna RashmiORCID, Inada-Kim MatthewORCID, Andrews NickORCID, Tzortziou-Brown VictoriaORCID, Byford RachelORCID, Zambon MariaORCID, Lopez-Bernal JamieORCID, de Lusignan SimonORCID
Abstract
Background
Prepandemic sentinel surveillance focused on improved management of winter pressures, with influenza-like illness (ILI) being the key clinical indicator. The World Health Organization (WHO) global standards for influenza surveillance include monitoring acute respiratory infection (ARI) and ILI. The WHO’s mosaic framework recommends that the surveillance strategies of countries include the virological monitoring of respiratory viruses with pandemic potential such as influenza. The Oxford-Royal College of General Practitioner Research and Surveillance Centre (RSC) in collaboration with the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has provided sentinel surveillance since 1967, including virology since 1993.
Objective
We aim to describe the RSC’s plans for sentinel surveillance in the 2023-2024 season and evaluate these plans against the WHO mosaic framework.
Methods
Our approach, which includes patient and public involvement, contributes to surveillance objectives across all 3 domains of the mosaic framework. We will generate an ARI phenotype to enable reporting of this indicator in addition to ILI. These data will support UKHSA’s sentinel surveillance, including vaccine effectiveness and burden of disease studies. The panel of virology tests analyzed in UKHSA’s reference laboratory will remain unchanged, with additional plans for point-of-care testing, pneumococcus testing, and asymptomatic screening. Our sampling framework for serological surveillance will provide greater representativeness and more samples from younger people. We will create a biomedical resource that enables linkage between clinical data held in the RSC and virology data, including sequencing data, held by the UKHSA. We describe the governance framework for the RSC.
Results
We are co-designing our communication about data sharing and sampling, contextualized by the mosaic framework, with national and general practice patient and public involvement groups. We present our ARI digital phenotype and the key data RSC network members are requested to include in computerized medical records. We will share data with the UKHSA to report vaccine effectiveness for COVID-19 and influenza, assess the disease burden of respiratory syncytial virus, and perform syndromic surveillance. Virological surveillance will include COVID-19, influenza, respiratory syncytial virus, and other common respiratory viruses. We plan to pilot point-of-care testing for group A streptococcus, urine tests for pneumococcus, and asymptomatic testing. We will integrate test requests and results with the laboratory-computerized medical record system. A biomedical resource will enable research linking clinical data to virology data. The legal basis for the RSC’s pseudonymized data extract is The Health Service (Control of Patient Information) Regulations 2002, and all nonsurveillance uses require research ethics approval.
Conclusions
The RSC extended its surveillance activities to meet more but not all of the mosaic framework’s objectives. We have introduced an ARI indicator. We seek to expand our surveillance scope and could do more around transmissibility and the benefits and risks of nonvaccine therapies.
Publisher
JMIR Publications Inc.
Cited by
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