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Table 1 Classes of determinants of discrepancies of reported morbidity to actual morbidity

From: The score of integrated disease surveillance and response adequacy (SIA): a pragmatic score for comparing weekly reported diseases based on a systematic review

stages of patient care

Classes of determinants or potential distorting factors

References

Perception of the illness and Health care access

Form and perceived severity of illness

[35,36,37,38,39,40]

Etiological concept and type of disease

[38, 40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47]

Individual characteristics of patients

[38, 43, 48,49,50,51,52,53,54,55]

Socio-economic characteristics of patients

[38, 43, 54,55,56,57,58,59,60,61,62,63,64,65]

Attractiveness factors of places

[66,67,68,69,70,71]

Geographical accessibility

[38, 42,43,44, 61, 72,73,74,75]

Characteristics of the environment

[66, 76,77,78]

Urbanization

[79,80,81,82,83]

Movements of population

[84]

Diagnosis

Presence of an intervention program

[22, 85, 86]

Functioning of health services: quality of service and framework

[38, 44, 48, 58, 62, 87,88,89,90]

Staff competence

[44, 62, 87, 91]

Lack of supplementary diagnosis

[44, 92]

Lack of clinical standardized decision tree for diagnosing

[91, 93, 94]

Difficulty of differential diagnosis with other diseases

[20, 31,32,33,34]

Spatial distribution of disease

[95,96,97]

Data reporting

Staff competence

[84]

Standardization of data collection tools

[84, 98]

Large volume of work

[31]

Falsification of data

[31]

Typing errors

[31, 99]

Integration of the disease into a national or global strategy

[10, 100]

Characteristic of the response

[10, 100]