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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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Autores principales: Lim, Faye J., Blyth, Christopher C., Levy, Avram, Fathima, Parveen, de Klerk, Nicholas, Giele, Carolien, Moore, Hannah C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 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