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A rubella outbreak has been ongoing in Salaj, Romania since September 2011 involving 1,840 probable and confirmed cases among mainly unvaccinated adolescents. The index case had onset of illness on 6 September 2011. The highest number of cases was recorded among 1014-year-olds and 1519-year-olds. Complications were recorded for 11 cases and included meningitis and arthritis. Although the peak has passed, surveillance is being maintained in the region.
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Brotes de Enfermedades , Vacuna contra el Sarampión-Parotiditis-Rubéola/administración & dosificación , Rubéola (Sarampión Alemán)/epidemiología , Vacunación/estadística & datos numéricos , Adolescente , Distribución por Edad , Niño , Femenino , Humanos , Incidencia , Tiempo de Internación , Masculino , Vigilancia de la Población , Rumanía/epidemiología , Rubéola (Sarampión Alemán)/diagnóstico , Rubéola (Sarampión Alemán)/prevención & control , Distribución por Sexo , Adulto JovenRESUMEN
Since January 2011 Romania has been experiencing a measles outbreak with 2,072 cases notified in 29 of the 42 Romanian districts. Most cases occurred in the north-western part of the country among unvaccinated children with the highest number of cases (893 cases) registered in children aged one to four years. This report underlines once more the need for additional measures targeting susceptible populations to achieve high vaccination coverage with two doses of measles-mumps-rubella vaccine.
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Notificación de Enfermedades/estadística & datos numéricos , Brotes de Enfermedades , Virus del Sarampión/aislamiento & purificación , Sarampión/epidemiología , Adolescente , Adulto , Distribución por Edad , Niño , Preescolar , Femenino , Humanos , Inmunoglobulina M/sangre , Incidencia , Lactante , Recién Nacido , Masculino , Sarampión/diagnóstico , Sarampión/prevención & control , Sarampión/virología , Virus del Sarampión/genética , Vacuna contra el Sarampión-Parotiditis-Rubéola/administración & dosificación , Vigilancia de la Población , Reacción en Cadena de la Polimerasa de Transcriptasa Inversa , Rumanía/epidemiología , Vacunación/estadística & datos numéricos , Adulto JovenRESUMEN
BACKGROUND: Patient safety within healthcare systems is a central aspect of health policy in most developed countries. From April 2007 to May 2009, the pilot project ExpIR-RO tested a voluntary incident reporting system in a public hospital in Bucharest Romania, in collaboration with two Italian hospitals (in Genoa and Milan). METHODS: Data were collected anonymously through a form based on the Australian Incident Monitoring System. After appropriate training in reporting adverse events (AEs), staff in the participating Departments voluntarily completed the form. The study lasted 12 months in the Bucharest and Genoa hospitals and 3 months in the Milan hospital. Frequency distributions of replies and AE rates per 1,000 hospitalization days per month were assessed. RESULTS: Overall, 185 AEs were reported (58 in Bucharest, 75 in Genoa and 52 in Milan). The corresponding rates (per 1,000 hospitalization days per month) were 1 in Bucharest, 3 in Genoa and 15 in Milan. Most AEs were related to diagnostic (28%) and surgical (14%) procedures and patient falls (12%) in Bucharest; patient falls (32%), nursing care (20%) and diagnostic procedures (19%) in Genoa; and nursing care (25%), drug prescription/administration (21%) and diagnostic procedures (17%) in Milan. Seventy-three per cent of respondents in Bucharest informed the patient of the AE, versus 64% in Genoa and 43% in Milan. Conversely, 75% of respondents in Genoa entered AEs in medical records versus 53% in Bucharest and 36% in Milan. CONCLUSION: ExpIR-RO experience suggests that incident reporting could be introduced on a larger scale in Romania.