Estimating the Under-reporting Rate for Infectious Gastrointestinal Illness in Ontario
- 1 May 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Canadian Journal of Public Health
- Vol. 96 (3) , 178-181
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf03403685
Abstract
In Ontario, infectious gastrointestinal illness (IGI) reporting can be represented by a linear model of several sequential steps required for a case to be captured in the provincial reportable disease surveillance system. Since reportable enteric data are known to represent only a small fraction of the total IGI in the community, the objective of this study was to estimate the under-reporting rate for IGI in Ontario.Keywords
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