Estimating the Under-reporting Rate for Infectious Gastrointestinal Illness in Ontario
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Estimating the under-reporting rate for infectious gastrointestinal illness in Ontario.
BACKGROUND In Ontario, infectious gastrointestinal illness (IGI) reporting can be represented by a linear model of several sequential steps required for a case to be captured in the provincial reportable disease surveillance system. Since reportable enteric data are known to represent only a small fraction of the total IGI in the community, the objective of this study was to estimate the under-...
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عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Journal of Public Health
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0008-4263,1920-7476
DOI: 10.1007/bf03403685