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Title: Potential for the Australian and New Zealand paediatric intensive care registry to enhance acute flaccid paralysis surveillance in Australia: a data-linkage study
Contributor(s): Hobday, Linda K (author); Thorley, Bruce R (author); Alexander, Janet (author); Aitken, Thomas (author); Massey, Peter D  (author); Cretikos, Michelle (author); Slater, Anthony (author); Durrheim, David N (author)
Publication Date: 2013
Open Access: Yes
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-13-384Open Access Link
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/20714
Abstract: Background: Australia uses acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) surveillance to monitor its polio-free status. The World Health Organization criterion for a sensitive AFP surveillance system is the annual detection of at least one non-polio AFP case per 100,000 children aged less than 15 years, a target Australia has not consistently achieved. Children exhibiting AFP are likely to be hospitalised and may be admitted to an intensive care unit. This provides a potential opportunity for active AFP surveillance. Methods: A data-linkage study for the period from 1 January 2005 to 31 December 2008 compared 165 non-polio AFP cases classified by the Polio Expert Panel with 880 acute neurological presentations potentially compatible with AFP documented in the Australian and New Zealand Paediatric Intensive Care (ANZPIC) Registry. Results: Forty-two (25%) AFP cases classified by the Polio Expert Panel were matched to case records in the ANZPIC Registry. Of these, nineteen (45%) cases were classified as Guillain-Barré syndrome on both registries. Ten additional Guillain-Barré syndrome cases recorded in the ANZPIC Registry were not notified to the national AFP surveillance system. Conclusions: The identification of a further ten AFP cases supports inclusion of intensive care units in national AFP surveillance, particularly specialist paediatric intensive care units, to identify AFP cases that may not otherwise be reported to the national surveillance system.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Source of Publication: BMC Infectious Diseases, v.13, p. 1-6
Publisher: BioMed Central Ltd
Place of Publication: United Kingdom
ISSN: 1471-2334
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 111704 Community Child Health
111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: 420402 Models of care and place of birth
420399 Health services and systems not elsewhere classified
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 920499 Public Health (excl. Specific Population Health) not elsewhere classified)
929999 Health not elsewhere classified
920210 Nursing
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: 200307 Nursing
Peer Reviewed: Yes
HERDC Category Description: C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal
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