Potential effects of electronic laboratory reporting on improving timeliness of infectious disease notification -Florida, 2002-2006

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

Volumn 57, Issue 49, 2008, Pages 1325-1328

  Kite Powell, A ^a   Hamilton, J J ^a   Hopkins, R S ^a   DePasquale, J M ^b  

^a FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b CDC ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; FACTUAL DATABASE; HEALTH SURVEY; HEPATITIS A; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MENINGOCOCCOSIS; METHODOLOGY; SALMONELLOSIS; SHIGELLOSIS; STATISTICS; TIME; UNITED STATES;

CLINICAL LABORATORY INFORMATION SYSTEMS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DISEASE NOTIFICATION; DYSENTERY, BACILLARY; FLORIDA; HEPATITIS A; HUMANS; MENINGOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SALMONELLA INFECTIONS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 58049179885     PISSN: 01492195     EISSN: 1545861X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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