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Volume 19, Number 11—November 2013
Research

Mobile Phone–based Syndromic Surveillance System, Papua New Guinea

Alexander RosewellComments to Author , Berry Ropa, Heather Randall, Rosheila Dagina, Samuel Hurim, Sibauk Bieb, Siddhartha Datta, Sundar Ramamurthy, Glen Mola, Anthony B. Zwi, Pradeep Ray, and C. Raina MacIntyre
Author affiliations: World Health Organization, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea (A. Rosewell, H. Randall, S. Datta); University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (A. Rosewell, A.B. Zwi, P. Ray, C.R. MacIntyre); National Department of Health, Port Moresby (B. Ropa, R. Dagina, S. Hurim, S. Bieb); Datanets, Port Moresby (S. Ramamurthy); University of Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby (G. Mola)

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Table 2

Notifications for suspected measles cases during MOPBASSS pilot at 3 provincial hospitals, Papua New Guinea, May–September 2011*

Hospital Suspected measles notifications
MOPBASSS (clinician based) HBAS (health office based) NHIS (clinician based) Fully investigated
A 6 (100) 0 6 0
B 11 (85) 4 (31) 13 0
C 1 1 0 0
Total 18 (95) 5 (26) 19 0

*Values are no. (%). NHIS was used as reference. MOPBASSS, mobile phone–based syndromic surveillance system; HBAS, Hospital Based Active Surveillance system; NHIS, National Health Information System.

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