To notify or not to notify : Decision aid for policy makers on whether to make an infectious disease mandatorily notifiable
| Autor: | Ewout Fanoy, Marianne A B van der Sande, Simone M. van der Plas, Paul Bijkerk, Margreet J.M. te Wierik, Mirjam Kretzschmar, Hans J. van Vliet, George B. Haringhuizen, Katina Kardamanidis |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Health Knowledge Attitudes Practice Mandatory notification Epidemiology decision aid Public policy Public Policy Disease Communicable Diseases Dengue fever Decision Support Techniques Dengue Environmental health Surveys and Questionnaires Virology medicine Journal Article Infection control Humans Decision-making Practice Patterns Physicians' Policy Making Disease Notification Netherlands Infection Control Surveillance business.industry Public health Environmental and Occupational Health Administrative Personnel Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Mandatory Reporting medicine.disease Cross-Sectional Studies Infectious disease (medical specialty) Population Surveillance Vibrio Infections Infectious diseases Medical emergency Public Health business Q Fever |
| Zdroj: | Eurosurveillance, 20(34). Centre Europeen pour la Surveillance Epidemiologique du SIDA |
| ISSN: | 1025-496X |
| Popis: | Mandatory notification can be a useful tool to support infectious disease prevention and control. Guidelines are needed to help policymakers decide whether mandatory notification of an infectious disease is appropriate. We developed a decision aid, based on a range of criteria previously used in the Netherlands or in other regions to help decide whether to make a disease notifiable. Criteria were categorised as being effective, feasible and necessary with regard to the relevance of mandatory notification. Expert panels piloted the decision aid. Here we illustrate its use for three diseases (Vibrio vulnificus infection, chronic Q fever and dengue fever) for which mandatory notification was requested. For dengue fever, the expert panel advised mandatory notification; for V. vulnificus infection and chronic Q fever, the expert panel concluded that mandatory notification was not (yet) justified. Use of the decision aid led to a structured, transparent decision making process and a thorough assessment of the advantages and disadvantages of mandatory notification of these diseases. It also helped identify knowledge gaps that required further research before a decision could be made. We therefore recommend use of this aid for public health policy making. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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