Volume 8, Number 7—July 2002
Research
Automatic Electronic Laboratory-Based Reporting of Notifiable Infectious Diseases
Table 2
Data field completion rates on common data fields for cases in UPMC electronic and conventional reporting system databasesa
Data field | No. (%) of conventional reported cases with field completed (n=534) | No. (%) of electronic reported cases with field completed (n=582) |
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Patient information | ||
Patient ID | 534 (100) | 582 (100) |
Name | 534 (100) | 582 (100) |
Sex | 534 (100) | 582 (100) |
Date of birth | 462 (86.5) | 582 (100) |
Age | 518 (97.0) | 582 (100) |
Address | 533 (99.8) | 306 (52.6) |
Zip code | 533 (99.8) | 306 (52.6) |
Specimen information | ||
Organism name | 534 (100) | 582 (100) |
Time result obtained | 534 (100) | 582 (100) |
Time result reported | 534 (100) | 582 (100) |
Other information | ||
Status of report | 534 (100) | 220 (37.8) |
aAll rates before matching and duplicate record removal; UPMC, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Health System.