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. 2017 Jun 23;17:87. doi: 10.1186/s12911-017-0491-8

Table 1.

Reporting ratesa by disease and source, 2010–2012

Disease Number of cases Provider reporting rate [reference] Faxed-LR reporting rate HIE-ELR reporting rate Faxed-LR or HIE-ELR reporting rate
Chlamydia 2605 44.4% 23.1%* 48.4%* 69.9%*
Histoplasmosis 73 42.5% 15.1%* 57.5% 69.9%*
Gonorrhea 810 36.5% 20.0%* 44.8%* 63.1%*
Salmonellosis 246 30.1% 23.2% 68.7%* 84.1%*
Hepatitis C 1137 10.6% 10.7% 80.6%* 88.4%*
Syphilis 445 6.3% 8.3% 65.4%* 71.7%*
Hepatitis B 3718 0.5% 0.2%* 99.7%* 99.8%*

HIE-ELR Electronic laboratory report from health information exchange, Faxed-LR Faxed report directly from a laboratory

*p < 0.01 for pairwise comparisons where the reference was the provider reporting rate

aThe reporting rates (%) for each data source are displayed as the proportion of cases for the disease group which contained at least one report from that source. The total n includes de-duplicated cases reported by providers, laboratories, or the HIE or known to the public health agency because the case presented directly in a public health agency clinic