Analysis of timeliness of infectious disease reporting in the Netherlands

BMC Public Health

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Reijn, Elisabeth ^a   Swaan, Corien M ^b   Kretzschmar, Mirjam E E ^b,c   Van Steenbergen, Jim E ^b,d  

^a Municipal Health Service (MHS) Zaanstreek Waterland   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; FACTUAL DATABASE; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; NETHERLANDS; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; STANDARD; TIME;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DISEASE NOTIFICATION; HUMANS; NETHERLANDS; PUBLIC HEALTH ADMINISTRATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79957551197     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-11-409     Document Type: Article

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