title: [The discharge form: advantages and limits legionellosis cases individuation].
abstract: Despite legionellosis surveillance is active in Italy since many years, the disease notification appears still undervalued. A multicentric survey was carried out among 5 big Italian hospitals. It examined 11,435 discharge forms (1999-2001), reporting pneumonia diagnosis. Legionellosis (II class of notify system for infectious disease) was studied among pneumonia diagnosis by discharge forms. According to the ICD9-CM, there's no specific code for legionellosis (this disease is included among "others gram-negative pneumonia"). So the presumed pneumonia imputable to Legionella spp were the 2.7% of the whole number of analyzed discharge forms. Besides, the data regarding the other pneumonia showed that the etiological agent was specified only in the 11.2% of the case. This situation could be rectified both introducing adequate discharge forms codes and promoting the etiological diagnosis during the hospital stay.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Medicina Interna e Medicina Pubblica, Sezione di Igiene, Università degli Studi di Bari.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Trerotoli
authors.forename: M T
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Montagna
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Borella
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Romano Spica
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authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Stancanelli
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Triassi
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authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Serio
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Napoli
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Soldano
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Tatò
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Vercilli
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Gentile
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Quaranta
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Volpe
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ambrosio
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Santarpia
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authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Montegrosso
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D007876:Legionellosis; D008875:Middle Aged; D010351:Patient Discharge; D011996:Records