Improving the accuracy of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal disesase notification rates using data linkage

Abstract: Background: Routinely collected infectious disease surveillance data provide a valuable means to monitor the health of populations. Notifiable disease surveillance systems in Australia have consistently reported high levels of completeness for the demographic data fields of age and sex, bu...

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Main Authors: Mak, Donna, Watkins, Rochelle
Format: Journal Article
Published: BioMed Central 2008
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/27074