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Table 3 Disease specific reporting precision according to disease of the case examples. Reference variable: Salmonellosis case examples; outcome variable: reporting precision (n= 5995)

From: Reliability of case definitions for public health surveillance assessed by Round-Robin test methodology

Disease

Odds Ratio *

Confidence Interval

Salmonellosis

-

-

Tuberculosis

0.678

0.477 – 0.965

Measles

0.375

0.277 – 0.509

Hepatitis C

0.277

0.208 – 0.368

Pathogenic E. coli enteritis

0.229

0.173 – 0.304

Adenovirus conjunctivitis

0.173

0.130 – 0.230

Haemorrhagic fever

0.161

0.123 – 0.210

Meningococcal meningitis

0.153

0.117 – 0.201

EHEC (enterohaemorrhagic E. coli)

0.099

0.076 – 0.129

Influenza

0.093

0.071 – 0.121

Hepatitis B

0.057

0.043 – 0.075

Creutzfeldt-Jakob-Disease (CJD)

0.012

0.008 – 0.017

Polio

0.008

0.005 – 0.013

  1. + The higher the odds ratio the higher the agreement with the gold standard. E.g. the chance of agreement with the gold standard was only two third (OR = 0.678) for tuberculosis case examples compared to Salmonella case examples.
  2. * The four salmonella-like examples consisted in 2 examples of Salmonella enterica, one example of Salmonella Paratyphi and one example of an enteric disease with unidentified pathogen.
  3. ** The four EHEC-like case examples consisted in four causes by EHEC and one cause by Shigella.
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BMC Public Health

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