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 …

Context Surveillance is a key component of the core public health function of health
assessment. Systematic reporting by health care professionals and laboratories, which may …

Notifiable disease surveillance systems provide essential data for infectious disease
prevention and control programs at the local, state, and national levels. Given that reporting …

ContextNotifiable disease surveillance is essential to rapidly identify and respond to
outbreaks so that further illness can be prevented. Automating reports from clinical …

Objectives. We examined whether automated electronic laboratory reporting of notifiable-
diseases results in information being delivered to public health departments more …

Electronic laboratory-based reporting, developed by the University of Pittsburgh Medical
Center (UPMC) Health System, was evaluated to determine if it could be integrated into the …

Primary care physicians in Germany are essential participants in infectious disease
surveillance through mandatory reporting. Feedback on such surveillance should reflect the …

Reporting of cases of communicable disease is important in the planning and evaluation of
disease prevention and control programs, in the assurance of appropriate medical therapy …

Surveillance of communicable diseases in the United States depends on the reporting of
cases by primary physicians. It is widely recognized, however, that significant numbers of …

Abstract 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 …