Volume 8, Number 7—July 2002
Research
Automatic Electronic Laboratory-Based Reporting of Notifiable Infectious Diseases
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) |
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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).