Measures involved in sentinel surveillance includes all of the following except: (A) Identifying missing cases in notification of diseases, (B) Identifying new cases of infection, (C) Identifying old and new cases, (D) Identifying cases free of disability
Answer is D. Sentinel Surveillance : Monitoring of rate of occurrence of specific conditions to assess the stability or change in health levels of a population, It is also the study of disease rates in a specific cohort, geographic area, population subgroup, etc. to estimate trends in larger population ; For e.g. Use of health practitioners to monitor trends of a health event in a population 1. Sentinel Surveillance helps in ‘identifying missing cases’ and ‘supplementing notified cases’.