Timeliness in the German surveillance system for infectious diseases: Amendment of the infection protection act in 2013 decreased local reporting time to 1 day

Jakob Schumacher; Michaela Diercke; Maëlle Salmon; Irina Czogiel; Dirk Schumacher; Hermann Claus; Andreas Gilsdorf

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0187037

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Timeliness in the German surveillance system for infectious diseases: Amendment of the infection protection act in 2013 decreased local reporting time to 1 day

Jakob Schumacher ,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft

* E-mail: jakob.schumacher@web.de

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin-Mitte, Berlin, Germany

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9894-6085

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Michaela Diercke,

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin-Mitte, Berlin, Germany
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Maëlle Salmon,

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin-Mitte, Berlin, Germany
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Irina Czogiel,

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin-Mitte, Berlin, Germany
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Dirk Schumacher,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin-Mitte, Berlin, Germany
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Hermann Claus,

Roles Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin-Mitte, Berlin, Germany
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Andreas Gilsdorf

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin-Mitte, Berlin, Germany
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Timeliness in the German surveillance system for infectious diseases: Amendment of the infection protection act in 2013 decreased local reporting time to 1 day

Jakob Schumacher,
Michaela Diercke,
Maëlle Salmon,
Irina Czogiel,
Dirk Schumacher,
Hermann Claus,
Andreas Gilsdorf

Published: October 31, 2017
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0187037

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