The phrase "active morbidity" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in medical or health-related contexts to refer to the presence of diseases or health conditions that are currently affecting an individual or population.
Example: "The study focused on the rates of active morbidity among patients with chronic illnesses."
Alternatives: "current morbidity" or "ongoing morbidity".
Attendance at the 2-weekly active morbidity follow-up ranged from 88.6% 99.5%.
Children with parasitologically confirmed malarial illness or Hb <7.5 g/dl were treated in the same way as those detected during active morbidity surveillance.
Active morbidity surveillance was conducted twice a week in a subgroup of enrolled children who were followed for 1 year.
In VASIN, there were 11 407 enrolled children who contributed to the active morbidity surveillance in the postnatal period (ie, from 28 days of age).
Given the intense nature of conducting a study with active morbidity surveillance and the large sample size needed to complete a study with verbal autopsies, it is unlikely that we missed eligible studies through our intense search process.
Although there are many large-scale studies monitoring mortality among young children and many other studies with active morbidity surveillance, combining these two attributes limited the studies available for inclusion.
At screening visit, 18% of the subjects reported one or more currently active concomitant morbidities, mainly involving the allergic/immunologic (10%), the gastrointestinal (3%), the endocrine (2%), the dermatological (2%) and the genito-urinary (2%) system.
Patient-specific data included the following: date and time of hospital and ICU admission, gender, age, Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) III diagnostic code and score, and pre-existing or currently active co-morbidities.
In addition to fortnightly active surveillance for morbidity, all children were actively checked for the presence of malarial infection every 8 weeks using finger prick blood sampling.
The Dhaka hospital is a 350-bed facility supported by the Kamalapur urban field site, which has both active demographic and morbidity surveillance among a population of 350 000, of whom 11.5% are children <5 years old [ 17, 18].
Exclusion criteria were infection, revision arthroplasty, marked bone loss, medication with bone-active drugs, or severe morbidity.
