Contribution of laboratory data and the role of communicable disease notification committee in improving communicable disease notifications in Ege University Hospital

Volume: 48 Number: 2 June 1, 2009
  • Durusoy R
  • Kantar M
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Contribution of laboratory data and the role of communicable disease notification committee in improving communicable disease notifications in Ege University Hospital

Abstract

Aim: To evaluate the contribution of serology laboratory data into communicable disease notifications and the role of hospital's Communicable Disease Notification Committee in improving clinicians' notifications in Ege University Hospital in January 2007– July 2008. Material and Methods: The study is an operational study with two interventions: Finding cases of notifiable disease using serology laboratory data, notifying them and trying to increase clinicians' notifications by making feed-back to clinics through committee meetings. The numbers and ratios of cases notified have been compared with chi-square test. Results: The ratio of cases notified from Ege University Hospital among notifications from all facilities in Izmir has increased from 0.6% to 8.5% (p=0.0000). This ratio significantly increased for brucellosis, mumps, measles, syphilis, hepatitis A, B, C. Clinicians' notification rate has increased by 12 times, from 1.3% to 15.4% (p=0.0000). Clinicians have notified brucellosis, hepatitis A and B significantly more. Clinics that had not notified before have started to notify and there was an increase in the types of disease notified. Conclusion: Laboratory data have made an important contribution to notifications. Committee meetings have been effective in improving clinicians' notifications. Active surveillance based on laboratory data and feed-back to clinics about cases they did not notify could provide a solution to the undernotification problem.

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Durusoy R

Kantar M

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June 1, 2009

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June 1, 2009

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Year 1970 Volume: 48 Number: 2

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1.Durusoy R, Kantar M. Ege Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Hastanesi’nde bulaşıcı hastalık bildirimlerini geliştirmek için laboratuvar tanılarının kullanımı ve bulaşıcı hastalıklar bildirim komitesinin rolü. EJM [Internet]. 2009 Jun. 1;48(2):109-18. Available from: https://izlik.org/JA55WR37AF

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