Underreporting and underestimation of gonorrhea cases in the Taiwan National Gonorrhea Notifiable Disease System in the Tainan region: evaluation by a pilot physician-based sentinel surveillance on Neisseria gonorrhoeae infection

International Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Hsieh, Yu Hsiang ^a   Kuo, Mu Jong ^a   Hsieh, Tsun Che ^a   Lee, Hsin Chun ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Gonorrhea; Notifiable diseases; Surveillance; Taiwan; Underreporting

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; INFORMATION SYSTEM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHYSICIAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; TAIWAN; URETHRITIS; URINALYSIS; UTERINE CERVICITIS;

DISEASE NOTIFICATION; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HUMANS; MALE; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PHYSICIANS; PILOT PROJECTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; TAIWAN;

EID: 70350572834     PISSN: 12019712     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijid.2009.02.006     Document Type: Article

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