The failed Ripper inquiry had resulted in a number of changes to the policing system, including the formation of the dedicated vice squad to which the young McLean had been assigned, and the creation of the Home Office large major enquiry system (Holmes), a computerised cross-referencing system developed between West Yorkshire police and IT experts.
The Taiwan TB reporting enquiry system has successfully increased the confirmed PTB reporting rate from 64.4%to71.5%5%.
The tuberculosis reporting enquiry system was launched in Taiwan in 2001.
This study is the first to analyze data obtained from a nationwide database, the TB reporting enquiry system.
The completeness of data reporting was not perfect in the early period of use of the reporting enquiry system, and missing data (unknown data) was therefore inevitable.
Qualified doctors report cases via the reporting enquiry system based on laboratory tests, chest radiography, and clinical symptoms, e.g., persistent coughs.
To enable this, the TB reporting enquiry system was launched in Taiwan in 2001 [ 4] and has since been strengthened to improve the efficiency of reporting via the websites of medical care institutions.
A total of 114,827 cases were reported using the Taiwan enquiry system between 2002 and 2006; of these, 26,027 (22.7%) were finally diagnosed as not being tuberculosis, 7,005 (8.2%) were diagnosed as extra-pulmonary tuberculosis and 3,677 (3.2%) were not a first-time diagnosis of tuberculosis, and these cases were hence excluded.
SPSS version 13.0 was used for data analysis in order to calculate how the TB reporting enquiry system is affected by variables such as sex, age, ethnicity, reporting year, site of disease, living conditions, sputum smear status, sputum culture status, chest radiography and the hospital level at which the diagnosis took place.
It is not hard to see that there is some considerable tension between the notion of 'free enquiry' and a system where both the topics of research and the methods through which it is carried out are defined in large part by one government-funded institution [ 2, 7].
