Exhaustividad de los registros de sida en España

Abstract

In Spain the reporting level of AIDS cases is acceptable for the aims of surveillance, although in some regions measures to improve it should be taken. The notification of deaths to the AIDS reporting system presents great deficiencies.

Clinical and epidemiological analysis of patients with HIV/AIDS admitted to a reference hospital in the northeast region of Brazil

“…Of the 828 patients investigated, 254 died (30.7%) and of these, 194 (76.4%) died during the initial attendance and 44 (17.3%) within the first 48 h of hospitalization. The average number of admittances per patient was 1.5 ± 1.4 (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9)(10)(11)(12)(13)(14)(15). The number of infectious complications at death was of 2.1 ± 1.1 (0-8) and 231 (90.9%) patients presented up to three opportunistic infections at death.…”

“…The IDTNP is classified as a hospital-school, where both research and medical residences are established, which justifies the low level of underreporting. However, this rate is still high when compared to countries with superior availability of research funds and directed campaigns aimed at the importance of notification 2,4 .…”

Evaluación del sistema de información de Navarra sobre diagnósticos de infección por el VIH, 1985-2003

“…Tanto en Europa [9][10][11][12] como en Estados Unidos [13][14][15] se han realizado diversas evaluaciones de sistemas de información sobre diagnósticos de VIH y de registros de casos de sida. En España se han realizado evaluaciones de algunos registros autonómicos o provinciales de sida, [16][17][18][19] 21 Por tanto, a finales de 2003 se estima que había en Navarra al menos 902 personas viviendo con el VIH (1,5 por 1000 habitantes), situándose en un punto intermedio de en cuanto a tasa de diagnósticos de infección por el VIH en comparación con países de Europa occidental (figura 1) 3,21 .…”