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Notifiable disease surveillance and practicing physicians.

Gérard Krause1, Gwendolin Ropers, Klaus Stark

  • 1Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Robert Koch Institute, Seetrasse 10, 13353 Berlin, Germany. krauseg@rki.de

Emerging Infectious Diseases
|March 11, 2005
PubMed
Summary

Most German primary care physicians want occasional, non-electronic infectious disease surveillance reports. Few receive feedback, with East German doctors more likely to get it than West German doctors.

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Area of Science:

  • Public Health
  • Epidemiology
  • Medical Sociology

Background:

  • Primary care physicians are crucial for infectious disease surveillance in Germany.
  • Effective surveillance requires feedback tailored to physicians' needs and attitudes.
  • Understanding physician perspectives on surveillance feedback is vital for improving public health reporting.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate primary care physicians' experiences and preferences regarding infectious disease surveillance feedback in Germany.
  • To identify factors influencing the receipt and perceived importance of surveillance feedback.
  • To determine preferred methods and formats for delivering surveillance data to physicians.

Main Methods:

  • A questionnaire survey was conducted among 8,550 randomly sampled primary care physicians in Germany in 2001.

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  • 1,320 physicians responded to the survey.
  • Logistic regression analysis was used to examine factors associated with receiving feedback.

    • Main Results:

    • 59.3% of respondents reported not receiving any infectious disease surveillance feedback.
    • Only 3.7% considered feedback unimportant.
    • Physicians in former East Germany were 2.2 times more likely to receive feedback than those in former West Germany.
    • Preferred feedback delivery: occasional reports (31.6%) over active internet searches (7.8%).
    • Preferred formats: fax (31.7%), mail (30.9%), and the Deutsches Arzteblatt (30.5%).

    Conclusions:

    • A significant gap exists in providing infectious disease surveillance feedback to German primary care physicians.
    • Non-electronic, occasional reports focusing on local public health issues are preferred.
    • Future surveillance feedback strategies should prioritize convenient, non-electronic formats to enhance physician engagement.