Reporting notifiable diseases: Methods for improvement, attitudes and community outcome

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 135-137

  Seneviratne, S L ^a   Gunatilake, S B ^a   De Silva, H J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KELANIYA   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

Notifiable diseases; Notification register; Reporting

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HUMAN; INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL PERSONNEL; NURSE; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; REGISTER;

EID: 0030909933     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0035-9203(97)90199-1     Document Type: Article

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