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Nucleic acids research
paper describes preliminarily evaluates usefulness daily syndromespecific absenteeism surveillance system dssass early warning system school outbreaks rural china conducted experimental study rural areas hubei province september 19 2011 december 31 2011 nine public elementary schools two counties selected pilot sentinel schools daily monitoring data absent date reason sex age class absent student collected entered web database reported data checked daily field investigation carried abnormal absentee aggregation descriptive analysis preliminary evaluation conducted pilot study findings showed total average daily absenteeism rate 3 absenteeism rate differed county school level grade level daily absenteeism rate illness absentees highest 274 followed business absentees 013 injury absentees 009 total timeliness report rate 6484 total incident report rate 2922 one varicella outbreak one influenza b outbreak identified neither detected china information system diseases control prevention cisdcp study shows syndromespecific absenteeism data would useful early detection unusual public health events outbreaks school however efforts needed enhance quality surveillance data longer followup analysis required evaluate system comprehensively study might provide useful experience evidence developing regions counties establishing similar systems