Performance of Symptom-Based Case Definitions to Identify Influenza Virus Infection Among Pregnant Women in Middle-Income Countries: Findings From the Pregnancy and Influenza Multinational Epidemiologic (PRIME) Study.
Meredith G WesleyYeny TinocoArchana PatelPiyarat SuntarratiwongDanielle HuntChalinthorn SinthuwattanawiboolGiselle SotoWanitchaya KittikraisakPrabir Kumar DasCarmen Sofia ArriolaDanielle HombroekJoshua MottKunal KurheSavita BhargavAmber PrakashRichard FlorianOswaldo GonzalesSantiago CabreraEdwin LlajarunaTana BrummerParker MalekSiddhartha SahaShikha GargEduardo Azziz-BaumgartnerMark G ThompsonFatimah S DawoodPublished in: Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (2022)
The current WHO ILI case definition was highly specific but had low sensitivity. The intended use of case definitions should be considered when evaluating the tradeoff between sensitivity and specificity.