Timeliness of Nongovernmental versus Governmental Global Outbreak Communications

To compare the timeliness of nongovernmental and governmental communications of infectious disease outbreaks and evaluate trends for each over time, we investigated the time elapsed from the beginning of an outbreak to public reporting of the event. We found that governmental sources improved the ti...

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Autores principales: Mondor, Luke, Brownstein, John S., Chan, Emily, Madoff, Lawrence C., Pollack, Marjorie P., Buckeridge, David L., Brewer, Timothy F.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2012
Materias:
Dispatch
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3376818/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22709741
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1807.120249
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Sumario:To compare the timeliness of nongovernmental and governmental communications of infectious disease outbreaks and evaluate trends for each over time, we investigated the time elapsed from the beginning of an outbreak to public reporting of the event. We found that governmental sources improved the timeliness of public reporting of infectious disease outbreaks during the study period.

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