Title: Quality Control: Study Finds Wide Variation in Public Health Response to Case Reports

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Researchers evaluating the ability of 19 local public health agencies to receive and respond to case reports used to detect disease outbreaks found wide variation in performance, according to a study (http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/abstract/hlthaff.w5.412v1) published online today by Health Affairs. "Development and implementation of measures of public health agencies' performance are crucial to improving public health preparedness and, ultimately, to assuring the agencies' accountability," the authors conclude.

Source: AHA News Now - August 30, 2005

Reprinted with the permission of the American Hospital Association, copyright 2005.