Completeness and timeliness of notifiable disease reporting: a comparison of laboratory and provider reports submitted to a large county health department

Table 1 Reporting rates^a by disease and source, 2010–2012

Disease	Number of cases	Provider reporting rate [reference]	Faxed-LR reporting rate	HIE-ELR reporting rate	Faxed-LR or HIE-ELR reporting rate
Chlamydia	2605	44.4%	23.1%*	48.4%*	69.9%*
Histoplasmosis	73	42.5%	15.1%*	57.5%	69.9%*
Gonorrhea	810	36.5%	20.0%*	44.8%*	63.1%*
Salmonellosis	246	30.1%	23.2%	68.7%*	84.1%*
Hepatitis C	1137	10.6%	10.7%	80.6%*	88.4%*
Syphilis	445	6.3%	8.3%	65.4%*	71.7%*
Hepatitis B	3718	0.5%	0.2%*	99.7%*	99.8%*

HIE-ELR Electronic laboratory report from health information exchange, Faxed-LR Faxed report directly from a laboratory
*p < 0.01 for pairwise comparisons where the reference was the provider reporting rate
^aThe reporting rates (%) for each data source are displayed as the proportion of cases for the disease group which contained at least one report from that source. The total n includes de-duplicated cases reported by providers, laboratories, or the HIE or known to the public health agency because the case presented directly in a public health agency clinic

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