Volume 11, Number 3—March 2005
Policy Review
Notifiable Disease Surveillance and Practicing Physicians
Gérard Krause*
, Gwendolin Ropers*, and Klaus Stark*
, Gwendolin Ropers*, and Klaus Stark*
Table 2
Feedback preferences for epidemiologic notifiable disease surveillance data for primary care physicians in Germany, 2001 (N = 1,320)
| Preference | % |
|---|---|
| Preferred time for feedback (maximum of 1 response) | |
| Quarterly | 33.4 |
| Semiannually | 27.2 |
| Upon an occasion (e.g., outbreak) | 31.6 |
| Access through the Internet* | 7.8 |
| Preferred region on which to deliver feedback (maximum of 2 responses) | |
| Own county (Kreis) | 41.1 |
| Own state (Bundesland) | 29.3 |
| Germany | 34.8 |
| Europe | 28.8 |
| Worldwide | 37.3 |
| Preferred medium by which to deliver feedback (maximum of 2 responses) | |
| Fax letter | 31.7 |
| Fax call | 2.0 |
| 30.9 | |
| Official organ of the German Medical Association (Deutsches Arzteblatt) | 30.5 |
| 20.9 | |
| Internet | 16.2 |
| Weekly national epidemiologic bulletin | 16.5 |
| Preferred issues for feedback (multiple responses) | |
| Outbreak of infectious diseases | 85.2 |
| Trends | 47.6 |
| Control of vaccination programs | 31.5 |
| Revelation of imported or travel-associated diseases | 60.4 |
| Recommendations on preventive measures | 65.3 |
| Other | 1.4 |
*Constant availability of information for active retrieval through the Internet by user.
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