Evaluation of the timeliness and completeness of a Web-based notifiable disease reporting system by a local health department.

Objective: To evaluate the completeness and timeliness of the Colorado statewide Web-based system for reporting notifiable diseases, called the Colorado Electronic Disease Reporting System. This project demonstrates how a local health department can conduct a surveillance evaluation to identify areas of improvement.

Methods: Reports received by Colorado for 2004 were categorized as Tri-County Health Department (TCHD) reports and reports received for the rest of Colorado.

Tuberculosis among foreign-born children in the State of Florida, 1993--1999: a re-emergence phase after a sustained decline?

Study Objective: To determine the temporal trend of tuberculosis disease among foreign-born children in the State of Florida.

Design And Setting: Descriptive population-based study on data obtained from the Tuberculosis Control and Surveillance Program in the State of Florida. We employed Poisson assumption to derive estimates for rates of tuberculosis among US-born and foreign-born children in the studied population.

Tuberculosis among foreign-born children in the state of Florida, 1993-1999: a re-emergence phase after a sustained decline?

Study Objective: To determine the temporal trend of tuberculosis disease among foreign-born children in the State of Florida.

Design And Setting: Descriptive population-based study on data obtained from the Tuberculosis Control and Surveillance Program in the State of Florida. We employed Poisson assumption to derive estimates for rates of tuberculosis among US-born and foreign-born children in the studied population.