英文摘要 |
The Sentinel Surveillance System established by the Health Inspection and Quarantine Institute in 1989, to make up for the weakness of low reporting rate and low efficiency of “notifiable communicable diseases” and “reportable communicable diseases,” has been implemented since 1990. To select sentinel physicians, health bureaus in each city and county first recommended local representative physicians with a high number of outpatient cases. Various regional surveillance centers then sent staff to visit these physicians to understand whether they were willing to participate in this system before suitable physicians were selected. In 2009, there were 800 sentinel physicians selected in about 87% of cities and counties islandwide. |