Record-linkage and capture-recapture analysis to estimate the incidence and completeness of reporting of tuberculosis in England 1999-2002

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 136, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1606-1616

  Van Hest, N A H ^a,b   Story, A ^c   Grant, A D ^c   Antoine, D ^c   Crofts, J P ^c   Watson, J M ^c  

^a Public Health Service of the Rotterdam Region   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RATE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION SYSTEM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; STATISTICAL MODEL; TUBERCULOSIS; UNITED KINGDOM; VALIDITY;

DISEASE NOTIFICATION; ENGLAND; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PUBLIC HEALTH INFORMATICS; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 56349127385     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268808000496     Document Type: Article

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