TY - JOUR
T1 - Surveillance of imported hospital requiring malaria in Portugal
T2 - can it be improved?
AU - Fonseca, Ana Glória Rodrigues Sanches da
AU - Dias, Sara Alexandra Fonseca Marques Simões
AU - Garcia, Jorge Manuel Torgal Dias
AU - Baptista, João Luís dos Santos
N1 - PMID: 27069002
PY - 2016/6
Y1 - 2016/6
N2 - Although eradicated in Portugal, malaria keeps taking its toll on travellers and migrants from endemic countries. Completeness of hospital requiring malaria notification in Portugal 2000-11 was estimated, using two-source capture-recapture method. Data sources were: national surveillance database of notifiable diseases and the national database of the Diagnosis-Related Groups resulting from National Health Service (NHS) hospital episodes. The completeness of notification was 21,2% for all malaria cases and 26,5% for malaria deaths, indicating significant underreporting and urging for complementary data source in surveillance, for disease burden estimates and retrospective monitoring, namely hospital episodes statistics.
AB - Although eradicated in Portugal, malaria keeps taking its toll on travellers and migrants from endemic countries. Completeness of hospital requiring malaria notification in Portugal 2000-11 was estimated, using two-source capture-recapture method. Data sources were: national surveillance database of notifiable diseases and the national database of the Diagnosis-Related Groups resulting from National Health Service (NHS) hospital episodes. The completeness of notification was 21,2% for all malaria cases and 26,5% for malaria deaths, indicating significant underreporting and urging for complementary data source in surveillance, for disease burden estimates and retrospective monitoring, namely hospital episodes statistics.
KW - CAPTURE-RECAPTURE
U2 - 10.1093/eurpub/ckw052
DO - 10.1093/eurpub/ckw052
M3 - Article
C2 - 27069002
SN - 1101-1262
VL - 26
SP - 403
EP - 406
JO - European Journal of Public Health
JF - European Journal of Public Health
IS - 3
ER -
