英文摘要 |
In order to retrieve the underreport and low timeliness of 'notifiable diseases' and 'reportable infectious diseases', the former National Quarantine Service set up the sentinel surveillance system in 1989, and it went into operation in 1990. In the early stage, the sentinel physicians were selected by health bureaus of counties and cities which recommended the representative practitioners having a large amount of outpatients in the districts, and the working personnel of surveillance centers of various districts of the Quarantine Service Center interviewed the physicians and selected proper physicians after knew their willingness to cooperate. The number of sentinel physicians in 2008 was kept between 700 and 800, and they were distributed in about 87% of urban townships of Taiwan. |