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| Title |
Measuring underreporting and under-ascertainment in infectious disease datasets: a comparison of methods
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| Published in |
BMC Public Health, February 2014
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2458-14-147 |
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| Authors |
Cheryl L Gibbons, Marie-Josée J Mangen, Dietrich Plass, Arie H Havelaar, Russell John Brooke, Piotr Kramarz, Karen L Peterson, Anke L Stuurman, Alessandro Cassini, Eric M Fèvre, Mirjam EE Kretzschmar |
| Abstract |
Efficient and reliable surveillance and notification systems are vital for monitoring public health and disease outbreaks. However, most surveillance and notification systems are affected by a degree of underestimation (UE) and therefore uncertainty surrounds the 'true' incidence of disease affecting morbidity and mortality rates. Surveillance systems fail to capture cases at two distinct levels of the surveillance pyramid: from the community since not all cases seek healthcare (under-ascertainment), and at the healthcare-level, representing a failure to adequately report symptomatic cases that have sought medical advice (underreporting). There are several methods to estimate the extent of under-ascertainment and underreporting. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 14 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 2 | 14% |
| Ireland | 1 | 7% |
| United States | 1 | 7% |
| Australia | 1 | 7% |
| Kenya | 1 | 7% |
| Unknown | 8 | 57% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 8 | 57% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 4 | 29% |
| Scientists | 2 | 14% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 311 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 2 | <1% |
| Portugal | 1 | <1% |
| Netherlands | 1 | <1% |
| Kenya | 1 | <1% |
| France | 1 | <1% |
| Mexico | 1 | <1% |
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 303 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 60 | 19% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 56 | 18% |
| Student > Master | 52 | 17% |
| Student > Bachelor | 18 | 6% |
| Other | 15 | 5% |
| Other | 48 | 15% |
| Unknown | 62 | 20% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 63 | 20% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 31 | 10% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 21 | 7% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 20 | 6% |
| Social Sciences | 17 | 5% |
| Other | 75 | 24% |
| Unknown | 84 | 27% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 67. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 12 December 2023.
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