European Journal of Public Health
Volume 26, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 403-406

Surveillance of imported hospital requiring malaria in Portugal: Can it be improved? (Article) (Open Access)

Fonseca A.G.* , Simões Dias S. , Baptista J.L. , Torgal J.
  • a Public Health Department, Nova Medical School, Faculdade Ciências Medicas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Campo Mártires da Pátria, 130, Lisboa, 1169-056, Portugal
  • b Public Health Department, Nova Medical School, Faculdade Ciências Medicas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Campo Mártires da Pátria, 130, Lisboa, 1169-056, Portugal, UIS-ESSLei-IPLeiria, Leiria, Portugal
  • c Faculdade de Ciências da Saúde (Faculty of Health Sciences), Universidade da Beira Interior (Beira Interior University), Portugal, Av. Infante D. Henrique, Covilhã, 6200-506, Portugal
  • d Public Health Department, Nova Medical School, Faculdade Ciências Medicas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Campo Mártires da Pátria, 130, Lisboa, 1169-056, Portugal

Abstract

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. © 2016 The Author. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Public Health Association. All rights reserved.

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Index Keywords

Quality Improvement total quality management Portugal health survey Population Surveillance diagnosis related group Diagnosis-Related Groups human statistics and numerical data Malaria Databases, Factual factual database procedures Humans Disease Notification Retrospective Studies Hospitals hospital retrospective study public health National Health Programs
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DOI: 10.1093/eurpub/ckw052
ISSN: 11011262
Cited by: 2
Original Language: English