Open AccessGeneral practitioner notifications of gastroenteritis and food poisoning: cause for concern
Author(s) -
Frank C. Day,
Graham Sutton
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.916
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1741-3850
pISSN - 1741-3842
DOI - 10.1093/pubmed/fdm043
Subject(s) - audit , medicine , environmental health , public health , medical emergency , notification system , food poisoning , psychological intervention , business , nursing , computer network , accounting , pathology , computer science
Under the Public Health (Infectious Diseases) Regulations 1988, all doctors are required by law to notify suspected cases of specific infections and food poisoning. Doctors' propensity to notify is known to be low, and we sought to quantify this locally.
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