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We used linked notification, hospital, mortality and birth data for all children of an Australian state (2000\u20132007) to estimate the incidence of meningococcal disease. A total of 595 cases were notified, 684 cases had a hospital diagnosis, and 26 cases died from meningococcal disease. All deaths were notified, but only 68% (466\/684) of hospitalized cases. Of non-notified hospitalized cases with more than one clinical admission, most (90%, 103\/114) did not have meningococcal disease recorded as their final diagnosis, consistent with initial \u2018false-positive\u2019 hospital meningococcal disease diagnosis. After adjusting for false-positive rates in hospital data, capture\u2013recapture estimation suggested that up to four cases of meningococcal disease may not have been captured in either notification or hospital records. The estimated incidence of meningococcal disease in NSW-born and -resident children aged 0\u201314 years was 5\u00b71\u20135\u00b74 cases\/100 000 child-years at risk, comparable to international estimates using similar methods, but lower than estimates based on hospital data.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1017\/s0950268814003355","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2015,1,9]],"date-time":"2015-01-09T07:34:17Z","timestamp":1420788857000},"page":"2570-2579","update-policy":"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1017\/policypage","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["Using linked birth, notification, hospital and mortality data to examine false-positive meningococcal disease reporting and adjust disease incidence estimates for children in New South Wales, Australia"],"prefix":"10.1017","volume":"143","author":[{"given":"A.","family":"GIBSON","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"L.","family":"JORM","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"P.","family":"McINTYRE","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"56","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2015,1,9]]},"reference":[{"key":"S0950268814003355_ref28","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1046\/j.1440-1754.1999.t01-1-00337.x"},{"key":"S0950268814003355_ref27","unstructured":"Clinical Excellence Commission. 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