Accuracy of health administrative data to identify cases of reportable travel or migration-related infectious diseases in Ontario, Canada.

ABSTRACT: An ongoing challenge of estimating the burden of infectious diseases known to disproportionately affect migrants (e.g. malaria, enteric fever) is that many health information systems, including reportable disease surveillance systems, do not systematically collect data on migrant status and related factors. We explored whether health administrative data linked to immigration records offered a viable alternative for accurately identifying cases of hepatitis A, malaria and enteric fever in Ontario, Canada. Using linked health care databases generated by Ontario's universal health care program, we constructed a cohort of medically-attended individuals with presumed hepatitis A, malaria or enteric fever in Peel region using diagnostic codes. Immigrant status was ascertained using linked immigr

SUBMITTER: Savage RD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6221317 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature