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Using record linkage to validate notification and laboratory data for a more accurate assessment of notifiable infectious diseases
BACKGROUND: Infectious disease burden is commonly assessed using notification data. Using retrospective record linkage in Western Australia, we described how well notification data captures laboratory detections of influenza, pertussis and invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD). METHODS: We linked data...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2017
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5473994/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28623916 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12911-017-0484-7 |