Assessing the reporting quality of influenza outbreaks in the community

ConclusionsThe development of explicit reporting guidelines specifically geared towards reporting of outbreak investigations proved to be useful. Providing information on patient characteristics, investigation details in introduction and results, as well as addressing limitations that could have biased the findings were frequently missing in the published reports.This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.

Source: Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses - October 20, 2017 Category: Virology Authors: Calvin Lo, Dominik Mertz, Mark Loeb Tags: Original Article Source Type: research