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Surveillance of imported hospital requiring malaria in Portugal: can it be improved?: Table 1
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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.
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Ana Glória Fonseca, Sara Simões Dias, João Luís Baptista, Jorge Torgal, Surveillance of imported hospital requiring malaria in Portugal: can it be improved?, European Journal of Public Health, Volume 26, Issue 3, June 2016, Pages 403–406, https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckw052
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Oxford University Press (OUP)