Enhancing Lyme Disease Surveillance by Using Administrative Claims Data, Tennessee, USA
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Lyme disease is underreported in the United States. We used insurance administrative claims data to determine the value of such data in enhancing case ascertainment in Tennessee during January 2011-June 2013. Although we identified ≈20% more cases of Lyme disease (5/year), the method was resource intensive and not sustainable in this low-incidence state.
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عنوان ژورنال:
دوره 21 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2015