BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Table 3 Timeliness by data source

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

Data Source	Total N	Mean # days	Median # days	Max # days	P-value for χ²
Provider	1878	10.5	5	375	Reference
Faxed-LR	1142	3.6	2	367	<0.0001
HIE-ELR	7393	2.0	1	320	<0.0001
Any Laboratory^a	8535	2.2	1	367	<0.0001

HIE Health information exchange, ELR Electronic laboratory report, LR Laboratory report
^aSource here could be either HIE-ELR or Faxed-LR

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