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The SPSN’s methodology has been reviewed by ethics boards in each participating province every year since 2004. In more recent year separate ethics review and approval has been granted in Alberta, and Ontario while SPSN activities in British Columbia and Quebec are considered regular public health surveillance.
Influenza (flu) The influenza virus or “flu” is a respiratory virus that circulates in Ontario, most frequently in the fall and winter. Influenza spreads from person-to-person through coughing, sneezing or having face-to-face contact. It can cause mild to severe respiratory disease. While anyone can get influenza, the very young, the ...
SPSN sentinel heath care providers in Ontario will be able to offer influenza, other seasonal respiratory virus (by MRVP) and COVID-19 testing to patients meeting SPSN testing criteria, which includes outpatients who would not normally be eligible for influenza and other seasonal respiratory virus testing.
Insert the completed SPSN requisition to the outer pocket of the biohazard bag. Notes: Keep the specimen refrigerated @ 4°C until ready to send. Send the specimen to your local Public Health Ontario Laboratory using routine procedures. A. Give consent page to the patient / guardian for their records. B. Proceed with lling out the requisition.
coordinator and to participating in the SPSN for the 2019-2020 season. I understand that, in providing my contact information below, I may, at any time, decline further study-related contact or withdraw the participation of my practice from this network without penalty.
Schedule A: FluWatch and the Sentinel Practitioner Surveillance Network (SPSN) - Vaccine Effectiveness (VE) Study Overview What is FluWatch? The national FluWatch surveillance system is composed of sentinel family physicians who report the number of patients they have seen in their practice with influenza-like illness (ILI) by age groups, in
Introduction. The Ontario Respiratory Virus Tool integrates a number of different data sources to provide a comprehensive view of respiratory virus infection activity in the province. This user guide describes the contents of this interactive report, how it is organized, and the functionalities for visualizing the content.
For the 2024-25 influenza season, one high-dose quadrivalent vaccine (QIV-HD), one standard-dose adjuvanted trivalent vaccine (TIV-adj), and three standard-dose quadrivalent vaccines (QIV) are available in Ontario through the UIIP for adults 65 years of age and older. The recombinant influenza vaccine (RIV) is not being offered through Ontario ...
Complete all fields of the COVID-19 and Respiratory Virus Test Requisition. Unwrap the swab from its package being careful to only hold the distant end of the swab shaft opposite the soft swab tip. Collect the specimen following the procedure illustrated above. Place the swab, soft tip first, into the test tube.
Key Findings. All of the COVID-19 vaccines approved for use in Canada are effective at preventing symptomatic SARS-CoV infection and COVID-19 related hospitalizations and death. There are numerous studies on the real-world vaccine effectiveness (VE) of the mRNA vaccines (Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine [BNT162b2] and Moderna COVID-19 vaccine ...