SETTING: Iasi County, Romania. OBJECTIVE: To assess the completeness of notification of adult tuberculosis (TB; age > or=15 years) in 2004. DESIGN: Record-linkage and capture-recapture analysis of three TB-related registers: a notification register, a laboratory register and a prescriptions register. RESULTS: After record linkage, the observed completeness of the notification register was 86.4%, giving an observed adult TB incidence rate of 202 per 100,000 population. After capture-recapture analysis, internal validity analysis and application of alternative truncated population estimation models, the estimated completeness of the notification register was 82-85%, giving an estimated adult TB incidence rate of between 204 and 212/100,000. CONCLUSION: This study shows that the severity of the TB problem in Iasi County is under-reported. The results are in agreement with a previous estimate of the undernotification of TB in Romania by the the World Health Organization.
SETTING: Iasi County, Romania. OBJECTIVE: To assess the completeness of notification of adult tuberculosis (TB; age > or=15 years) in 2004. DESIGN: Record-linkage and capture-recapture analysis of three TB-related registers: a notification register, a laboratory register and a prescriptions register. RESULTS: After record linkage, the observed completeness of the notification register was 86.4%, giving an observed adult TB incidence rate of 202 per 100,000 population. After capture-recapture analysis, internal validity analysis and application of alternative truncated population estimation models, the estimated completeness of the notification register was 82-85%, giving an estimated adult TB incidence rate of between 204 and 212/100,000. CONCLUSION: This study shows that the severity of the TB problem in Iasi County is under-reported. The results are in agreement with a previous estimate of the undernotification of TB in Romania by the the World Health Organization.
Authors: Daniel Eid; Miguel Guzman-Rivero; Ernesto Rojas; Isabel Goicolea; Anna-Karin Hurtig; Daniel Illanes; Miguel San Sebastian Journal: Am J Trop Med Hyg Date: 2018-01-01 Impact factor: 2.345
Authors: Mustafa Al-Haboubi; Rebecca E Glover; Elizabeth Eastmure; Mark Petticrew; Nick Black; Nicholas Mays Journal: Antibiotics (Basel) Date: 2021-04-13
Authors: Cheryl L Gibbons; Marie-Josée J Mangen; Dietrich Plass; Arie H Havelaar; Russell John Brooke; Piotr Kramarz; Karen L Peterson; Anke L Stuurman; Alessandro Cassini; Eric M Fèvre; Mirjam E E Kretzschmar Journal: BMC Public Health Date: 2014-02-11 Impact factor: 3.295
Authors: Masja Straetemans; Mirjam I Bakker; Sandra Alba; Christina Mergenthaler; Ente Rood; Peter H Andersen; Henrieke Schimmel; Aleksandar Simunovic; Petra Svetina; Carlos Carvalho; Outi Lyytikäinen; Ibrahim Abubakar; Ross J Harris; Csaba Ködmön; Marieke J van der Werf; Rob van Hest Journal: Euro Surveill Date: 2020-03