Annual Incidence Rate of Infectious Diseases Estimated from Sentinel Surveillance Data in Japan.
Open Access
- 1 January 2003
- journal article
- Published by Japan Epidemiological Association in Journal of Epidemiology
- Vol. 13 (3) , 136-141
- https://doi.org/10.2188/jea.13.136
Abstract
BACKGROUND: The estimation of incidence rates of infectious diseases based on the sentinel surveillance data is rather rare. We attempted to estimate these in 2000 in Japan by the surveillance data, and to evaluate their biases.Keywords
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