Hospital discharges-based search of acute flaccid paralysis cases 2007-2016 in Italy and comparison with the National Surveillance System for monitoring the risk of polio reintroduction

• Main Authors: Paola Stefanelli (Author), Stefania Bellino (Author), Stefano Fiore (Author), Stefano Fontana (Author), Concetta Amato (Author), Gabriele Buttinelli (Author), the Regional Reference Centres of the National Surveillance System for Acute flaccid paralysis (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2019-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) surveillance has been adopted globally as a key strategy for monitoring the progress of the polio eradication initiative. Hereby, to evaluate the completeness of the ascertainment of AFP cases in Italy, a hospital-discharges based search was carried...