Early reporting of trypanosomiasis cases to ProMED-mail allows timely recognition of emerging safari destinations that present an increased risk for infection to travelers.
Average response rates amongst doctors were reported to be 61% in studies published during the 10 year period 1986-1995 [ 2] and a comparable figure of 62% was reported for mail surveys published in US medical journals in 1991 [ 1] although only 50% of the included surveys were amongst health professionals.
We found no statistical difference in the means of the urine U between the 169 samples received from 1998 through 1999 and the 277 samples received between 2000 and 2002 (the earlier reports of mail-in surveillance results cited above).
It inquired about methods of reporting (post/fax/phone/e-mail) and the numbers of "report cards" received by post each week.
Every day Special Branch and MI5 get wheelie-bins of mail reporting suspicious behaviour, denouncing neighbours as terrorists, paedophiles or spies.
We relate timeliness to the existence of physician-laboratory-MHS agreements, different methods of reporting (post, fax, telephone, e-mail), and the number of notifications using "report cards".
They have checked out more than 80 reports of suspicious mail, including a package to a business that contained a plastic sandbox, rocks, a rake and a bag of white sand that had broken open.
The veterans reported an average of five more symptoms via mail than via telephone, mainly as the result of mild symptoms reported by mail that were not reported at all during the telephone interview (Brewer et al. 2004).
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You may even have heard who the injunction that's making headlines concerns, thanks to the devil-may-care attitude of America, or a Scottish newspaper (or figured it out for yourself, thanks to the death-wish reporting of the Daily Mail).
