Fig 1.
D: delay; T: time point; D1: delay between onset of disease and notification at local health department (LHD); D2: delay between ordering a laboratory confirmation test and notification at LHD; D3X and D3P: delays between laboratory conformation test result and notification at the LHD by the laboratory and by the physician respectively; D4: delays between notification at LHD and reporting at regional health department (RHD); D5: delay between reporting at RHD and the national health department (NHD). Arrows: delays used in this article.
Fig 2.
Full electronic search strategy for pubmed.
Fig 3.
Flow diagram search process.
Table 1.
Overview of study characteristics and results.
Fig 4.
Overview scores according predefined and standardized timeframes.