Volume 8, Number 7, July 2002

Research

Automatic Electronic Laboratory-Based Reporting of Notifiable Infectious Diseases

Anil A. Panackal,* Nkuchia M. M’ikanatha,† Fu-Chiang Tsui,‡  Joan McMahon,§ Michael M. Wagner,‡ Bruce W. Dixon,§ Juan Zubieta,* Maureen Phelan,* Sara Mirza,* Juliette Morgan,* Daniel Jernigan,* A. William Pasculle,‡ James T. Rankin, Jr.,† Rana A. Hajjeh,* and Lee H. Harrison‡
*Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; †Pennsylvania Department of Health, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA; ‡University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; and §Allegheny County Health Department, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US

Figure 2. Capture-recapture methodology (11). C=number of reports received through both electronic laboratory-based reporting and conventional paper-based reporting. n1=number of reports received through conventional paper-based reporting system only. n2=number of reports received through electronic laboratory-based reporting only. X= estimated number of reports missed by both electronic laboratory-based reporting and conventional paper-based reporting system. R=number of reports received through conventional paper-based reporting system. S=number of reports received through electronic laboratory-based reporting. N=estimated total number of reports available by the Chandra Sekar-Deming capture-recapture calculation.

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