The Incidence of Acute Gastrointestinal Illness in Canada, Foodbook Survey 2014-2015

Table 5

Health care seeking, stool submission, and medication use of acute gastrointestinal illness cases in Canada, 2014-2015.

	AGI		AGI without respiratory symptoms
		95% CI		95% CI
% of cases who saw physician	14.5	9.0–22.4	8.8	4.9–15.1
% of cases who sought care that were requested to submit a stool sample	12.7	6.2–24.4	17.1	7.5–34.5
% of cases submitted sample after physician request to submit	68.9	36.5–89.5	49.0	17.6–81.2
% of cases admitted to a hospital	1.1	0.45–2.7	0.68	0.28–1.7
Mean duration of hospital stay in days (median)	2.66 (1)		3.38 (2)
% of cases reported antibiotic use prior to illness	5.6	2.9–10.3	5.0	2.0–11.9
% of all cases reported taking antibiotics to treat illness	0.55	0.24–1.3	0.11	0.01–0.79