Improving the Reporting of Notifiable Diseases in Texas

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Abstract
In an effort to increase passive surveillance in Texas, an ad hoc committee of private and public health providers met to suggest changes in the list of reportable diseases and ways to improve provider participation. This group noted several reasons to make changes in the list of reportable diseases. Deletion was suggested for diseases whose reports did not warrant action from public health authorities or for previously common diseases, which were now rare and occurred as isolated events. Reasons to add a disease were recognition of new conditions of public health importance or the observation that a previously rare disease was now becoming common. It was the group's consensus that diseases reportable by law need to reflect realistic public health responses.

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