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. 2021 Jun 22;12(2):19–27. doi: 10.5365/wpsar.2020.11.2.001

Table 1. Patients with severe acute respiratory illness identified from reviews of hospital logbooks, and catchment area populations, for Champasack Provincial Hospital and Luang Prabang Provincial Hospital, Lao People's Democratic Republic, January to December 2016.

Hospital Age group Total*
< 5 years 5 to < 15 years 15 to < 65 years 365 years
Champasack Provincial Hospital
Number of SARI patients identified through logbook review 344 81 202 119 746
Percentage of SARI patients positive for influenza at sentinel surveillance site 16% 34% 14% 9% 18%
Population of catchment area 78 188 140 672 411 078 30 579 660 510
Percentage of SARI patients in the catchment area admitted to the sentinel site 42% 31% 75% 77% 49%
Adjusted population denominator 32 681 42 998 307 547 23 477 325 671
Luang Prabang Provincial Hospital
Number of SARI patients identified through logbook review 32 19 43 30 124
Percentage of SARI patients positive for influenza at sentinel surveillance site 5% 6% 9% 5% 6%
Population of catchment area 31 067 57 404 147 329 10 569 246 370
Percentage of SARI patients in the catchment area admitted to the sentinel site 10% 35% 34% 57% 23%
Adjusted population denominator 3176 19 830 50 279 5982 55 850

SARI: severe acute respiratory illness.

* Not all row totals equal the sum of columns.