Using the two-source capture–recapture method to estimate the incidence and case ascertainment of congenital rubella syndrome in Australia, 1993–2013

Nicolee Martin; David Durrheim; Gulam Khandaker; Michelle Butler; Cheryl Jones

doi:10.5365/wpsar.2015.6.4.006

Western Pacific Surveillance and Response (Mar 2016)

Using the two-source capture–recapture method to estimate the incidence and case ascertainment of congenital rubella syndrome in Australia, 1993–2013

Nicolee Martin,
David Durrheim,
Gulam Khandaker,
Michelle Butler,
Cheryl Jones

Affiliations

Nicolee Martin: Health Protection Policy Branch, Office of Health Protection, Australian Government Department of Health, Canberra, Australia
David Durrheim: School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
Gulam Khandaker: Centre for Perinatal Infection Research, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney and Marie Bashir Institute for Infectious Diseases & Biosecurity, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Michelle Butler: Hunter New England Population Health, New South Wales, Australia
Cheryl Jones: Centre for Perinatal Infection Research, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney and Marie Bashir Institute for Infectious Diseases & Biosecurity, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5365/wpsar.2015.6.4.006
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 34 – 37

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To verify rubella and congenital rubella syndrome (CRS) elimination, countries need to ensure that their surveillance systems are sufficiently sensitive to capture almost all cases. This study aims to estimate the incidence of CRS in Australia and the sensitivity of CRS case ascertainment in the National Notifiable Disease Surveillance System.

Published in Western Pacific Surveillance and Response

ISSN: 2094-7321 (Print); 2094-7313 (Online)
Publisher: World Health Organization Regional Office for the Western Pacific
Country of publisher: Philippines
LCC subjects: Medicine: Public aspects of medicine
Website: https://ojs.wpro.who.int/ojs/index.php/wpsar

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