Sentinel surveillance indicates:
A. Identifying the missing casesB. Identifying high risk groups
C. Surveillance of water pollution
D. SurveilJance of environmental
Ans. A. Identifying the missing eases
Sentinel
surveillance
A
method for identifying the missing cases and thereby supplementing the notified
cases is required. This is known as sentinel surveillance.’ The advantages of
such a system are that the reporting biases are minimized, and feedback of
information to the provider is simplified.
Finally,
these sentinel sites could be developed into a notification system for
providing more detailed information, which, in some settings, may be less
costly than developing and maintaining an ongoing notification system.
