Completeness of tuberculosis case notifications in Germany in 2013–2017: first results of an inventory study

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Table 4 Comparison of TB notification data from 2017 with insurance data

State	Number of people insured in BKK DV	Number of TB patients in insurance data	Population	Number of notified TB patients	Adjusted^a number of notified patients	Population rate insured in BKK DV	TB rate^b, insurance data	Adjusted^a TB notification rate^b	TB notification rate^b/TB rate^b insurance data
Schleswig-Holstein	203,013	8	2,889,821	137	118	0.07	3.94	4.08	1.04
Hamburg	117,817	6	1,830,584	235	204	0.07	5.09	11.1	2.18
Lower Saxony	751,878	15	7,962,775	347	256	0.09	1.99	3.21	1.61
North Rhine-Westphalia	1,813,596	57	17,912,134	1219	1006	0.10	3.14	5.62	1.79
Hesse	664,507	15	6,243,262	569	500	0.11	2.26	8.01	3.54
Rhineland-Palatinate	434,667	14	4,073,679	240	195	0.11	3.22	4.79	1.49
Baden-Württemberg	1,440,334	30	11,023,425	675	491	0.13	2.08	4.45	2.14
Bavaria	2,013,035	61	12,997,204	854	662	0.16	3.03	5.09	1.68
Berlin	441,751	38	3,613,495	420	347	0.12	8.60	9.60	1.12
Brandenburg	257,242	13	2,504,040	159	132	0.10	5.05	5.27	1.04
Saxony	165,932	6	4,081,308	211	181	0.04	3.62	4.43	1.22
Saxony-Anhalt	131,572	5	2,223,081	128	122	0.06	3.80	5.49	1.44
All	8,796,123	275	77,354,808	5194	4214	0.11	3.13	6.71	2.14

The table refers only to the patients from the 12 listed states (column “State”)
^a Adjusted notified patients – number of hospitalized TB patients without homeless, prisoners, asylum seeker or refugee status, diagnosed before death and notified in 2017
^b per 100,000 people

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