Table 2.

Data points that will be needed to achieve a rapid assessment national burden estimate

Population data in age groups	Adjustment factors for population increase	Enrolled cases by case definitions	Screened to enrolled by case definition	Adjustment for non‐enrolment (weekends etc)	Adjustment for case referred into hospital	HUS* adjustment (if available)	Detection rate of RSV	DHS for provincial national estimates
Population of catchment area of hospital	Usually available from census, then able to adjust population for growth, may differ by hospital	Enrolled into surveillance, by each of the case definitions	#cases enrolled fitting case definition/#screened fitting case definitions	Adjustment factor for cases missed on days not enrolling like weekends. Logs of total admission during this time will need to be kept	Adjustment for cases referred in from outside catchment	Will account for cases who seek care at other hospitals	#RSV positive/total SARI (other case definitions)	Risk factors to compare hospital population to national population
Absolute number	Absolute number	Absolute number as per enrolment	#case/#screened = proportion				#RSV+/total SARI enrolled = proportion	Compare proportions of identified risk factors for pneumonia, apply adjustment of site is different from provincial or national

^*Health utilization survey