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Evaluating the Variation on Public Health's Perceived Field Need of Communicable Disease Reports
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Communicable disease surveillance is a core Public Health function. Many diseases must be reported to state and federal agencies (1). To manage and adjudicate such cases, public health stakeholders gather various data elements. Since cases are… read more -
Effect of Electronic Health Record Systems Access on Communicable Disease Report Completeness
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Disease surveillance is a core public health (PH) function. To manage and adjudicate cases of suspected notifiable disease, PH workers gather data elements about persons, clinical care, and providers from various clinical sources, including… read more -
Timeliness of Chlamydia Laboratory and Provider Reports: A Modern Perspective
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Timeliness of reports sent by laboratories and providers is a continuous challenge for disease surveillance and management. Public health organizations often collect communicable disease reports with various degrees of timeliness raising the concern… read more -
Return to Public Health- Undeliverable letters of Communicable Disease Patients
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Preventing communicable disease spread is a primary objective for public health (PH). Reaching contagious people in a timely manner is essential to limit disease spread. Notifying patients of their infectious status also serves as an official… read more