Measuring underreporting and under-ascertainment in infectious disease datasets: A comparison of methods

BMC Public Health

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Gibbons, Cheryl L ^a   Mangen, Marie Josée J ^b   Plass, Dietrich ^c   Havelaar, Arie H ^d,e   Brooke, Russell John ^b   Kramarz, Piotr ^f   Peterson, Karen L ^a   Stuurman, Anke L ^d,g   Cassini, Alessandro ^f   Fèvre, Eric M ^h,i   Kretzschmar, Mirjam Ee ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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

^e UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^f EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR DISEASE PREVENTION AND CONTROL ECDC   (Sweden)

^g Health Research and Consultancy BV   (Netherlands)

^h INTERNATIONAL LIVESTOCK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Infectious diseases; Surveillance; Under ascertainment; Underestimation; Underreporting

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; CAMPYLOBACTER INFECTIONS; CANADA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE NOTIFICATION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; FEMALE; HUMANS; ICELAND; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; MALE; METHODS; NORWAY; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCE; SALMONELLA INFECTIONS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SWITZERLAND;

AUSTRALIA; CAMPYLOBACTER INFECTIONS; CANADA; DISEASE NOTIFICATION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; FEMALE; HUMANS; ICELAND; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; MALE; NORWAY; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCE; SALMONELLA INFECTIONS; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84893662203     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-14-147     Document Type: Article

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