Electronic reporting improves timeliness and completeness of infectious disease notification, The Netherlands, 2003
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Analysis of timeliness of infectious disease reporting in the Netherlands
BACKGROUND Timely reporting of infectious disease cases to public health authorities is essential to effective public health response. To evaluate the timeliness of reporting to the Dutch Municipal Health Services (MHS), we used as quantitative measures the intervals between onset of symptoms and MHS notification, and between laboratory diagnosis and notification with regard to six notifiable d...
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عنوان ژورنال: Eurosurveillance
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1560-7917
DOI: 10.2807/esm.10.01.00513-en