Underreporting of Notifiable Pulmonary Tuberculosis Cases to the National Tuberculosis Information Management System - China, 2015.

Tuberculosis (TB) notification data and the underreporting rate are major sources used in estimating TB incidence. China's TB Information Management System (TBIMS) was launched in 2005 but has not yet been evaluated for sensitivity. The average underreporting rate of pulmonary TB to TBIMS in selected facilities was 8.