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The Australian Sentinel Practice Research Network (ASPREN) data for weeks 35-39 to 48-52, 2001, ending 30 December 2001, are included in this issue of Communicable Diseases Intelligence (Table 6).
Table 6. Australian Sentinel Practice Research Network reports, weeks 35-39 to 48-52, 2001
Week number: |
35-39 | 40-43 | 44-47 | 48-52 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ending on: | 30 September 2001 |
28 October 2001 |
25 November 2001 |
30 December 2001 |
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| Doctors reporting: | 285 |
174 |
193 |
151 |
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| Total consultations: | 34,900 |
20,910 |
23,493 |
17677 |
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Condition |
Reports | Rate per 1,000 encounters | Reports | Rate per 1,000 encounters | Reports | Rate per 1,000 encounters | Reports | Rate per 1,000 encounters |
| Influenza | 279 |
8.0 |
61 |
2.9 |
59 |
2.5 |
23 |
1.3 |
| Influenza with culture | 2 |
0.1 |
1 |
0.0 |
1 |
0.0 |
0 |
0.0 |
| Chickenpox | 76 |
2.2 |
40 |
1.9 |
46 |
2.0 |
41 |
2.3 |
| Shingles | 52 |
1.5 |
20 |
1.0 |
44 |
1.9 |
17 |
1.0 |
ASPREN currently comprises about 66 general practitioners from throughout the country, not all of whom report each week. Between 4,000 and 6,000 consultations are reported each week, with special attention to 12 conditions chosen for sentinel surveillance in 2001. Communicable Diseases Intelligence reports the consultation rates for four of these. For further information, including case definitions, see Commun Dis Intell 2001;25:106.
This article was published in Communicable Diseases Intelligence Volume 26, No 1, March 2002
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