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Volume 8, Number 7—July 2002

Research

Automatic Electronic Laboratory-Based Reporting of Notifiable Infectious Diseases

Anil A. Panackal*, Fu-Chiang Tsui‡, Joan McMahon§, Michael M. Wagner‡, Bruce W. Dixon§, Juan Zubieta*, Maureen Phelan*, Sara Mirza*, Juliette Morgan*, Daniel B. Jernigan*, A. William Pasculle‡, James T. Rankin†, Rana A. Hajjeh*, Lee H. Harrison‡Comments to Author , and Nkuchia M. M’ikanatha
Author affiliations: *Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; †Pennsylvania Department of Health, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA; ‡University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; §Allegheny County Health Department, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA;

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Table 1

Completeness of coverage for UPMC electronic and conventional reporting systems by the notifiable infectious disease and hospital laboratorya

Conventional reporting (ACHD)
 Electronic reporting (UPMC)
Total no. of available reportsb No. of reports received Completeness of coverage (95% CI) No. of reports received Completeness of coverage (95% CI)
Notifiable infectious disease
Campylobacter 37 25 0.68 (0.49 to 0.85) 18 0.49 (0.32 to 0.65)
Salmonella 35 32 0.91 (0.83 to 0.97) 34 0.95 (0.91 to 0.97)
Escherichia coli O157:H7 17 10 0.59 (0.33 to 0.86) 7 0.41 (0.19 to 0.67)
Giardia 22 13 0.59 (0.39 to 0.77) 17 0.77 (0.58 to 0.90)
Neisseria meningitidis 9 5 0.58 (0.30 to 0.88) 7 0.72 (0.46 to 0.88)
UPMC Hospital laboratory
A 26 16 0.62 (0.46 to 0.80) 24 0.92 (0.81 to 0.96)
B 52 29 0.55 (0.42 to 0.65) 47 0.91 (0.79 to 0.96)
C 35 24 0.69 (0.43 to 0.90) 9 0.26 (0.12 to 0.40)
D 13 11 0.85 (0.64 to 0.92) 12 0.87 (0.71 to 0.92)
E 10 9 0.90 (0.70 to 0.90) 9 0.90 (0.70 to 0.90)

aUPMC, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Health System; ACHD, Allegheny County Health Department; CI, confidence interval.
bEstimated total number of reports available by using capture-recapture (N in Figure 2).

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