A Review of Strategies for Enhancing the Completeness of Notifiable Disease Reporting

Notifiable disease surveillance systems provide essential data for infectious disease prevention and control programs at the local, state, and national levels. Given that reporting completeness is known to vary considerably, this review identifies methods that can reliably enhance completeness of re...

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Published in:Journal of public health management and practice 2005-05, Vol.11 (3), p.191-200
Main Authors: Silk, Benjamin J., Berkelman, Ruth L.
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Disease Notification
Health technology assessment
Humans
Interprofessional Relations
Population Surveillance - methods
Public Health Informatics
Quality Control
United States
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