To explore the current perceptions, challenges, and recommendations of clinical physicians, hospital administrators, and centers for disease control and prevention (CDC) staff regarding the surveillance and reporting of pneumonia of unknown etiology (PUE).
In July 2024 and January 2025, one-on-one in-depth interviews were conducted with clinicians, administrators, and CDC staff from various medical institutions in Chongqing Municipality and Jingzhou City, Hubei Province. The interview outline was designed based on the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research, with interview content was coded, categorized and analyzed using Nvivo 15.0.
Forty participants were included: 17 clinicians, 13 hospital administrators, and 10 CDC staff. Across PUE surveillance and reporting practices, facilitators and barriers were identified at the levels of characteristics of individuals, intervention characteristics, outer setting, inner setting and process. The top three facilitators were familiarity with monitoring protocols and systems, sufficient resource support, and a well-established implementation environment. The top three barriers were the need to improve the specificity of case definitions, complex reporting procedures, and a lack of information technology and incentive mechanisms.
This study indicate that PUE surveillance and reporting are influenced by factors including characteristics of individuals, intervention characteristics, outer setting, inner setting and implementation processes. These findings suggest that optimization of PUE surveillance and reporting requires establishing effective incentive mechanisms, strengthening informatization, and expanding surveillance pathways, with the aim of enhancing the efficiency and quality of surveillance and reporting.
| 科 Family | 属数 Number of genus | 种数 Number of species | 占总种数比例 Percentage of total species (%) | 属 Genus | 种数 Number of species | 占总种数比例 Percentage of total species (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 鹅膏菌科Amanitaceae | 2 | 11 | 5.26 | 鹅膏菌属 Amanita | 10 | 4.78 |
| 小菇科 Mycenaceae | 2 | 12 | 5.74 | 丝盖伞属 Inocybe | 5 | 2.39 |
| 多孔菌科 Polyporaceae | 8 | 14 | 6.70 | 蜡蘑属 Laccaria | 5 | 2.39 |
| 红菇科 Russulaceae | 3 | 23 | 11.00 | 小皮伞属 Marasmius | 6 | 2.87 |
| 小菇属 Mycena | 11 | 5.26 | ||||
| 光柄菇属 Pluteus | 5 | 2.39 | ||||
| 红菇属 Russula | 17 | 8.13 | ||||
| 栓菌属 Trametes | 5 | 2.39 |