Romero-Álvarez Daniel, Peterson A Townsend, Escobar Luis E
Unidad de Epidemiología, Hospital General Enrique Garcés, Quito, Ecuador.
Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA.
Rev Chilena Infectol. 2017 Jun;34(3):289-290. doi: 10.4067/S0716-10182017000300015.
This manuscript presents the concept of "surveillance fatigue" (fatigatio vigilantiae), to describe an epidemiological scenario of an evident underreporting of cases during overwhelming epidemics. We revised past epidemics and found that surveillance fatigue is a common pattern, thus, it may be a useful concept in modern epidemiology.
本手稿提出了“监测疲劳”（fatigatio vigilantiae）这一概念，以描述在大规模疫情期间病例明显报告不足的一种流行病学情况。我们回顾了过去的疫情，发现监测疲劳是一种常见模式，因此，它可能是现代流行病学中一个有用的概念。
