Official information systems for cryptococcal meningitis, state of Rio de Janeiro, Southeastern Brazil;Sistemas de informação oficiais de meningite criptocócica, estado do Rio de Janeiro

Revista de Saude Publica

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 717-720

  Leimann, Beatriz Consuelo Quinet ^a   Koifman, Rosalina Jorge ^b  

^a Instituto Estadual de Infectologia Sao Sebastiao   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Disease notification; Epidemiologic surveillance; Information systems; Meningitis epidemiology ; Registries; Underregistration

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAZIL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCAL MENINGITIS; FACTUAL DATABASE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL RECORD; MORTALITY; STANDARD; STATISTICS;

BRAZIL; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DISEASE NOTIFICATION; HUMANS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MEDICAL RECORDS; MENINGITIS, CRYPTOCOCCAL; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE;

EID: 70349908521     PISSN: 00348910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0034-89102009005000029     Document Type: Article

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