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Is over-reporting a problem in mandatory communicable disease reporting? The taiwanese experience on Enterovirus 71

Author(s) -

Tseng Chu-Chun,

Yang Che-Ming

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

the journal of infection in developing countries

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.322

H-Index - 49

eISSN - 2036-6590

pISSN - 1972-2680

DOI - 10.3855/jidc.4623

Subject(s) - communicable disease , notifiable disease , enterovirus 71 , medicine , environmental health , disease control , disease , enterovirus , disease surveillance , under reporting , government (linguistics) , pediatrics , medical emergency , emergency medicine , public health , virology , statistics , nursing , mathematics , linguistics , virus , philosophy

In Taiwan, severe enteroviral infections must be reported to the government within 24 hours to ensure that severe enterovirus 71 (EV71) infections can be detected early. The objective of this research was to ascertain whether over-reporting is a problem in mandatory disease-reporting systems.

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