Complementing conventional infectious disease surveillance with national health insurance claims data in the Republic of Korea.

ABSTRACT: Surveillance remains an important tool for timely outbreak detection and response. Many countries, including Korea, have established national infectious disease surveillance systems with clinical notification. We aimed to evaluate the National Health Insurance Claims-based Surveillance (NHICS) compared to conventional passive report-based National Infectious Diseases Surveillance (NIDS). Reported to claimed cases ratios (R/C ratio) were evaluated from monthly notifiable disease cases captured by NIDS and NHICS. The relationships between 26 infectious diseases and each surveillance system were analysed using Pearson's correlation analysis and linear regression. There was an overall increase in R/C ratio from 2010-2017 (0.37 to 0.78). In 22 infectious diseases, there was a correlation betwee

SUBMITTER: Jung J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6584579 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature