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A Suggestion to Improve Timely Feedback of Infectious Disease Surveillance Data at a Provincial Level in South Korea

Description

In South Korea, the NNDSS is organized at three levels: local, provincial, and central. At the local level, physicians report the cased to the Public Health Center (PHC) and PHC conduct control measures. At the provincial level, the PHC reports the cases to the Department of Health (DOH) of the province and DOH obliged to report the cases to the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) and feedback of the surveillance data to PHC and physicians. At the central level, the Disease Web Statistics System (http://is.cdc.go.kr/ dstat/index.jsp) provides real-time data on 54 national notifiable infectious diseases.

Although there are variations according to the disease and surveillance step, the KNNDSS generally functions well in terms of timeliness and Yu et al. reported that 89.7% of mumps, one of the most incident contagious disease in South Korea, reported in 15 days after the physician’s notification. To improve the timeliness of feedback at the provincial level, we explored the KNNDSS data and suggested an evidence based duration for publication of the weekly reports, in consideration of reducing the publication schedule.

Objective

This study will explore the timeliness of the Korean National Notifiable Disease Surveillance System (KNNDSS) at provincial Level, and suggest a reasonable duration for publication the weekly reports to improve timely feedback of infectious disease surveillance data to physicians and community.

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