Use of Capture–Recapture Analysis to Assess Reporting Completeness of Births to Hepatitis B–Positive Women in New York City, 2013-2014

Objectives The New York City (NYC) Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) depends on reporting by health care facilities and laboratories for disease surveillance. Our objective was to evaluate the completeness of DOHMH surveillance to identify births to hepatitis B virus (HBV)–positive women to prevent perinatal transmission. Methods We identified infants born to HBV-positive women by matching mothers of all infants born in NYC during...