The web site is a collaboration between general pracitioners and researchers in France
It is made up of a "Réseau Sentinelles," a network of 1300 volunteer primary care physicians “médecins généralistes”, or general practitioners, working throughout the metropolitan regions of France (2% of the total general practitioners in these regions). Its goal is to provide clinical surveillance in France for 10 health indicators. Each member doctor is known as a “médecin Sentinelles” (or “Sentinelles doctor”). The network was created in November 1984 by Professor Alain-Jacques Valleron, and is regulated under the auspices of the research unit "U 707" of INSERM (the French NIH) and the University of Paris VI: Pierre and Marie Curie.
The site also includes a map showing a very high recent prevalence of diarrhea that occurred in the first week of January. Over 580,000 cases were rerported.
