OBJECTIVES: Infectious disease legislation in the United Kingdom has recently changed.
Our aim was to provide a baseline against which to assess the impact of these changes by …

Notification of infectious disease is essential for prompt public health action and
epidemiological analysis. The aim of this study was to compare national hospitalization data …

Despite state and local laws requiring medical providers to report notifiable infectious
diseases to public health authorities, reporting is believed to be incomplete. Through means …

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 …

Background There has been a resurgence of tuberculosis worldwide, mainly in developing
countries but also affecting the United Kingdom (UK), and other Western countries. The …

Objective To determine the feasibility of laboratory reporting of infectious diseases and to
compare the value of this system with the existing medical practitioner notification system …

To prepare for a new communicable disease act in Sweden, we performed an in-depth
analysis of the performance of the present notification system (1998–2002). Four diseases …

Rapid notification of infectious diseases is essential for prompt public health action and for
monitoring of these diseases in the Irish population at both a local and national level …

Background Efficient and reliable surveillance and notification systems are vital for
monitoring public health and disease outbreaks. However, most surveillance and notification …

Background Most public health agencies expect reporting of diseases to be initiated by
hospital, laboratory or clinic staff even though so-called passive approaches are known to …