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

BACKGROUND: Efficient and reliable surveillance and notification systems are vital for monitoring public health and disease outbreaks. However, most surveillance and notification systems are affected by a degree of underestimation (UE) and therefore uncertainty surrounds the 'true’ incidence of...

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Autores principales: Gibbons, Cheryl L, Mangen, Marie-Josée J, Plass, Dietrich, Havelaar, Arie H, Brooke, Russell John, Kramarz, Piotr, Peterson, Karen L, Stuurman, Anke L, Cassini, Alessandro, Fèvre, Eric M, Kretzschmar, Mirjam EE
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4015559/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24517715
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-14-147