Table 1 Reporting time interval from symptom onset and from diagnosis until notification (Po and Pd) for infectious disease notifications in relation to the incubation period and in relation to the time after diagnosis, with the values assuming zero delay in laboratory reporting (underlined figures in italics)
From: Analysis of timeliness of infectious disease reporting in the Netherlands
|  | median Po (days) | percentage notifications ≤ 1IP (%) | percentage notifications ≤ 2IP (%) | m | median Pd (days) | percentage notifications >3days after diagnosis (%) | m | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Shigellosis (IP 2 days) n=1910 | 15 | 11 | 0.4 | 5.9 | 2.9 | 12.9 | 5 | 3 | 42 | 0 |
EHEC/STEC (IP 3-4 days) n=432 | 12 | 8 | 2.3 | 10.6 | 23.8 | 43.2 | 49 | 1 | 33.3 | 11 |
Meningococcosis (IP 3-4 days) n=1263 | 3 | 2 | 57.1 | 71.2 | 86.7 | 94 | 19 | 0 | 12 | 2 |
Measles (IP 10 days) n=134 | 8 | 6 | 67.2 | 71.6 | 84.3 | 85.8 | 0 | 0 | 15.7 | 0 |
Typhoid fever (IP 11 days) n=166 | 16 | 12 | 33.5 | 47.5 | 70.3 | 77.2 | 8 | 2 | 22.3 | 0 |
HAV infection (IP 28 days) n=1518 | 9 | 8 | 90.3 | 93.1 | 97.2 | 98 | 65 | 0 | 20.9 | 1 |