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

Table 2 Percent complete by field and data source

Data Element	Proportion of Cases with Provider Reports^a N = 1725 [reference]	Proportion of Cases with Faxed Laboratory Reports N = 1001	Proportion of Cases with HIE-ELR N = 6748	Proportion of Cases with Any Laboratory Report N = 7624
Patient’s Last Name	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Patient’s First Name	99.9	100.0	100.0	100.0
Patient’s Date of Birth	96.5	100.0	96.8	97.2
Patient’s Sex	90.2	96.9*	100.0*	99.7*
Patient’s Street Address	87.0	57.2*	76.4*	74.9*
Patient’s Zip Code	83.8	57.4*	74.9*	73.6*
Patient’s Phone Number	78.3	65.7*	75.7	75.3
Patient’s Race	77.9	0.0*	73.6	65.2*
Physician’s Last Name	72.2	90.6*	99.2*	98.2*
Physician’s First Name	70.1	84.9*	82.7*	83.1*
Lab Test Performed	68.8	99.4*	100.0^*	99.9*
Physician’s Phone	66.5	90.4*	37.5*	44.9*
Physician’s Address	64.7	95.6*	41.2*	48.8*
Patient’s Ethnicity	56.4	0.0*	0.0*	0.0*
Physician’s Zip Code	45.3	95.5*	25.5*	34.9*
Average	77.2	75.7	72.2	73.1

HIE Health information exchange, ELR Electronic laboratory report
*p < 0.001 for pairwise comparisons where provider report field completeness was the reference
^aProvider report field completeness was used as the reference for calculating the χ² goodness of fit test statistic

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