Reliability of case definitions for public health surveillance assessed by Round-Robin test methodology

BMC Public Health

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Krause, Gérard ^a   Brodhun, Bonita ^a   Altmann, Doris ^a   Claus, Hermann ^a   Benzler, Justus ^a  

^a ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE STUDY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; GERMANY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POLIOMYELITIS; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SALMONELLOSIS; CLASSIFICATION; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; CONSENSUS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; INFECTION CONTROL; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; PROCEDURES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARDS; VALIDATION STUDY;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; CONSENSUS; DISEASE NOTIFICATION; GERMANY; HUMANS; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PUBLIC HEALTH ADMINISTRATION; PUBLIC HEALTH INFORMATICS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFTWARE; STATE GOVERNMENT;

EID: 33747101604     PISSN: 14712458     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-6-129     Document Type: Article

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