Open in a separate window. Figure 1. Shaded data for these variables are available in medical microbiology laboratories. Figure 2. Chlamydia reported rates and testing rates, Slovenia, Discussion Our results show that sexually transmitted chlamydia infection surveillance data in Slovenia substantially underestimate the diagnosed chlamydia infection cases, which contributes to the low sensitivity of chlamydia infection surveillance system. Conclusions The Slovenian chlamydia surveillance system should be improved by the introduction of mandatory reporting of laboratory confirmed cases with less variables including coded surname and date of birth or some other unique identifier , gender, date of diagnosis, reporting physician specialty - all routinely collected in microbiology laboratories , to the NIPH by laboratories, instead of by physicians.
Conflicts of Interest The authors declare that there is no conflict of interest. Ethical Approval All the data analysed in this study were collected at the National Institute of Public Health, without information about the identity of individuals diagnosed with chlamydial infection, according to the Contagious Diseases Act, Health Care Databases Act and Communicable Diseases Reporting Regulation.
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