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- Document 2345
- DOCN M94A2345
- TI The reproducibility of HIV transmission category in Italian AIDS
- surveillance.
- DT 9412
- AU Dal Maso L; Serraino D; Franceschi S; Tirelli U; Epidemiology Unit,
- Aviano Cancer Centre, Italy.
- SO Int Conf AIDS. 1994 Aug 7-12;10(1):325 (abstract no. PC0234). Unique
- Identifier : AIDSLINE ICA10/94370230
- AB OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the reliability of the assignment of AIDS cases
- to HIV transmission categories (e.g., intravenous drug users, homosexual
- and bisexual men) in national surveillances. METHODS: Reproducibility of
- transmission categories was assessed by means of kappa (K) statistics in
- 728 Italian AIDS cases (637 males and 91 females) for whom this type of
- information derived from two independent sources: the Italian AIDS
- Registry, RAIDS, the national compulsory notification scheme, and the
- Italian Cooperative Group on AIDS and Tumours, GICAT. RESULTS: A good
- degree of reproducibility (K > 0.80) emerged for intravenous drug users
- and recipients of blood and blood products in both sexes and for
- homosexual and bisexual men. Conversely, the concordance was poor for
- heterosexual and other/undetermined transmission categories, especially
- among males (K = 0.40 and K = 0.21, respectively). DISCUSSION AND
- CONCLUSIONS: These results suggest that the reliability of the
- classification of some transmission categories is unsatisfactory and
- that the present definition of at risk heterosexual partners in Italy
- may lead to a gross underestimation of the proportion of AIDS cases
- acquired heterosexually. Furthermore, as the magnitude of AIDS epidemic
- increases, national statistics may need to abandon the report of
- transmission category for each case and concentrate on the monitoring of
- AIDS diagnoses and HIV-related deaths.
- DE Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/EPIDEMIOLOGY/*TRANSMISSION Blood
- Transfusion/STATISTICS & NUMER DATA Cross-Sectional Studies Female
- Human HIV Infections/EPIDEMIOLOGY/*TRANSMISSION Incidence Italy Male
- *Population Surveillance Reproducibility of Results Risk Factors Sex
- Behavior Substance Abuse, Intravenous/COMPLICATIONS/EPIDEMIOLOGY
- MEETING ABSTRACT
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- SOURCE: National Library of Medicine. NOTICE: This material may be
- protected by Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.Code).
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