文章基本信息

标题：Evaluating Ascertainment of Hepatitis C Cases and Deaths by Electronically Linking Surveillance and Vital Statistics Data in Utah
本地全文：下载
作者：Anne Burke ; Jeffrey Eason ; David Jackson 等
期刊名称：Online Journal of Public Health Informatics
电子版ISSN：1947-2579
出版年度：2015
卷号：7
期号：1
语种：English
出版社：University of Illinois at Chicago
摘要：Although chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection results in substantial morbidity and mortality, many cases are undiagnosed and reporting to public health is often incomplete. To determine how well surveillance data documents deaths due to HCV, we linked reported HCV cases to death certificate records. Electronic record linkage found 346 deaths and an additional 254 persons were identified as having chronic HCV as a cause of death that had never been reported to public health. These results suggest that enhanced surveillance is needed to allow for more accurate representation of prevalence and mortality trends amongst the HCV population in Utah.