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Well-functioning epidemiological surveillance lowers health care costs

MedExpress Team

Medexpress

Published Sept. 26, 2024 09:38

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Epidemiological surveillance is one of the main sources of information on the incidence of notifiable and registerable infectious diseases, including invasive bacterial diseases, emphasize the participants of the conference "Diagnosis of the functioning of epidemiological surveillance in Poland in the area of Invasive Bacterial Diseases (IBD). Recommendations for systemic and organizational changes".

In response to the need to improve the quantitative and qualitative reporting of cases of Invasive Bacterial Diseases (IBD) reported to the National Institute of Public Health of the National Institute of Hygiene - National Research Institute (NIPH-BIP) and the National Reference Center for the Diagnosis of Bacterial Infections of the Nervous System (KOROUN), the project "Epi-IChB - strengthening the existing epidemiological surveillance of invasive bacterial diseases" was created. One of its components is the report "Diagnosis of the functioning of epidemiological surveillance in Poland. Recommendations for systemic changes".

Prof. Anna Skoczynska, head of KOROUN, said that more than a dozen recommendations have been made, and experts have identified three as priorities.

"These are: legal empowerment of the submission of samples to KOROUN, together with the introduction of positive motivators for the submission of biological material samples to KOROUN (certificate, additional points), standardization of the submission process, including, among other things, the introduction of the so-called >>one-stop-shop<< procedure, and the introduction of dedicated training for medical professionals within the framework of the already functioning in-service training mode." - Prof. Skoczynska informed....

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