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Volume 22, Number 4—April 2016
Dispatch

Effectiveness of a Mobile Short-Message-Service–Based Disease Outbreak Alert System in Kenya

Mitsuru TodaComments to Author , Ian Njeru, Dejan Zurovac, Shikanga O Tipo, David Kareko, Matilu Mwau, and Kouichi Morita

Author affiliations: Japan International Cooperation Agency, Tokyo, Japan (M. Toda); Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan (M. Toda); Nagasaki University Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki (M. Toda, K. Morita); Ministry of Health Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya (I. Njeru, S. O-Tipo, D. Kareko); Kenya Medical Research Institute Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Nairobi (D. Zurovac); Oxford University, Oxford, UK (D. Zurovac); Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi (M. Mwau)

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Table 2

Postintervention reporting of immediately notifiable cases by study group under the intention-to-treat and per-protocol analysis*

Type of analysis Control
 Intervention
 % Difference (95% CI)
Total Cases notified, no. (%) Total Cases notified, no. (%)
Intention to treat 39 1 (2.6) 130 25 (19.2) +16.7 (2.71–25.07)
Per protocol 21 1 (4.8) 88 24 (27.3) +22.5 (−0.32 to 34.13)

*Intention-to-treat analysis indicates analysis of treatment groups as they were randomized, regardless of the intervention exposure; per-protocol analysis indicates restricted analysis of groups that completed the entire study according to the trial protocol.

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